On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Andreas Färber <andreas.faer...@web.de> wrote: > Am 09.10.2010 um 17:10 schrieb Blue Swirl: > >> Replace some debug printf statements with tracepoints. >> >> Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwir...@gmail.com> >> --- >> I think tracing way is more flexible than current conditional code. I >> remember wading through hundreds of megs of DPRINTF output looking for >> a clue about a specific event, so being able to control the trace >> dynamically is invaluable. > > While this may in theory be right, in practice the nop backend gives us > nothing and the simple trace backend still has porting issues that need to > be fixed.
Which issues, do you mean that Python isn't available for all platforms? > I remember hacking around some time-related problems on Haiku (it was using > an optional POSIX feature without check/wrapper), and there was a comment > saying that similar changes need to be done for Win32 support too. > > Has anyone looked into a DTrace backend btw? Is that more portable than the simple backend?
