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Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/14] trace: Add trace-events file for declaring trace
 events
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:01:06 -0000
From: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
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Message-Id: <AANLkTi=veEuNzENFGVBRDMSRBrv4Ks9w9MF62uB7K-XO@mail.gmail.com>
To: malc <av1474@comtv.ru>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>,
 Prerna Saxena <prerna@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
 Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 8:42 PM, Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 8:10 PM, malc <av1474@comtv.ru> wrote:
>> On Mon, 30 Aug 2010, Blue Swirl wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi
>>> <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>>> > This patch introduces the trace-events file where trace events can be
>>> > declared like so:
>>> >
>>> > qemu_malloc(size_t size) "size %zu"
>>> > qemu_free(void *ptr) "ptr %p"
>>> >
>>> > These trace event declarations are processed by a new tool called
>>> > tracetool to generate code for the trace events.  Trace event
>>> > declarations are independent of the backend tracing system (LTTng User
>>> > Space Tracing, ftrace markers, DTrace).
>>>
>>> I think the tool does not work if 'sh' is not 'bash'. For example, on
>>> OpenBSD I got:
>>
>> Well, it does work with ash.
>>
>>>
>>> config-host.mak is out-of-date, running configure
>>>
>>> Error: invalid trace backend
>>> Please choose a supported trace backend.
>>>
>>>   GEN   trace.h
>>> /src/qemu/tracetool[176]: no closing quote
>>>
>>> This shows the problem:
>>> sh -x ../tracetool --nop --check-backend
>>> + set -f
>>> ../tracetool[176]: no closing quote
>>
>> `set -f' is a valid construct according to:
>> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/set.html
>>
>> The problem is likely elsewhere.
>
> Right, the offending lines are:
>    echo ${1%%(*}
> and
>    args=${1#*(}
>
> If I remove both of those, the errors are gone.
>

This patch fixes the problem. Double quotes do not help.


diff --git a/tracetool b/tracetool
index d640100..01de580 100755
--- a/tracetool
+++ b/tracetool
@@ -29,14 +29,14 @@ EOF
 # Get the name of a trace event
 get_name()
 {
-    echo ${1%%(*}
+    echo ${1%%\(*}
 }

 # Get the argument list of a trace event, including types and names
 get_args()
 {
     local args
-    args=${1#*(}
+    args=${1#*\(}
     args=${args%)*}
     echo "$args"
 }