RE: Questions Regarding Export Oprofile Library Interface

[Suthikulpanit, S. <Sur...@am...>]

Hi John,

I have looked into the Oprofile XML output.  It is a possibility
although it will require several extra steps (i.e. spawning a process to
run opreport in order to generate XML output and then parse the XML to
get the samples information.)  We would like to avoid the text
processing for the XML file if possible.

I am wondering if the API from the discussion
(http://marc.info/?l=oprofile-list&m=113465972000726&w=2) exists?  And
if so, can we extend the API.

Regards,
Suravee

-----Original Message-----
From: John Levon [mailto:le...@mo...] 
Sent: Monday, December 15, 2008 12:37 PM
To: Suthikulpanit, Suravee
Cc: opr...@li...; Yeh, Jason; Yu, Lei
Subject: Re: Questions Regarding Export Oprofile Library Interface

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 11:45:18AM -0600, Suthikulpanit, Suravee wrote:

> I am wondering if anyone is currently working on exporting ABI/API for
> Oprofile libraries, and also exporting them as shared libraries.  In
the
> past, I have noticed several discussion threads and the attempts to
> cleanly export libraries for other tools to link to.

Have you considered using, or modifying tools, to provide XML output,
then using that?

The existing libraries are extremely low-level and I'd be dubious about
enshrining them in an API.

regards
john