[lttng-dev] Printing complex data types with LTTng

[Jérémie Galarneau]

On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 4:26 PM, Chidhu R <chid1989 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Great. Thanks for the response. I wish that patch rolls out soon.
>
> BTW, did you mean there is a different approach with the current version of
> LTTng?

No, unfortunately.

Jérémie

>
> -- Chid
>
> On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 7:28 AM, Jérémie Galarneau
> <jeremie.galarneau at efficios.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 12:39 PM, Chidhu R <chid1989 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I wanted to know if there is a way to print complex data types, given
>> > the
>> > pointer to it.
>> >
>> > For ex,
>> >
>> > class Msg {
>> > int a;
>> > char *str
>> > };
>> >
>> > // Create an object for Msg
>> > // pass the address of the object to LTTng and make LTTng print the
>> > values
>> > of a and str. I do not want to dereference the pointer and send the
>> > individual values. Or, if there is a function which can be written to
>> > dereference the values and this function could be called each time I
>> > pass
>> > the address of the object is also fine.
>> >
>> > Is there a way to achieve this with LTTng?
>>
>> Not for the moment. Geneviève Bastien (CC-ed) has worked on it and
>> proposed a patch set. However, I'm not sure of the status of this
>> feature. I think Mathieu wanted to go with a different approach.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Jérémie
>>
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> > Chid
>> >
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>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Jérémie Galarneau
>> EfficiOS Inc.
>> http://www.efficios.com
>
>



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Jérémie Galarneau
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