[Dwarf-discuss] Proposal to encode Changed Function Signatures in dwarf

Frank Ch. Eigler fche@redhat.com
Thu Dec 4 17:24:23 GMT 2025


Hi -

> My particular use case is for bpf-based linux kernel
> tracing. When tracing a kernel function, the user would like
> to know the actual signature. This is critical. [...]

More precisely, the tracer tool needs to know which formal parameters
of a function actually survived past optimization, and where to find
the values at run time.  The answer to both questions is to parse the
location lists.

- FChE



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