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Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 15:06:18 +0400
From: Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>
To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: svn commit: r262424 - head/usr.sbin/pmcstat
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  Adrian,

On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 02:43:58AM +0000, Adrian Chadd wrote:
A> Log:
A>   Add a new option - 'a <file>' - which spits out annotated callgraphs.
A>   
A>   '-m <file>' spits out the given stream into <file> (eg, /dev/stdout).
A>   However, it only resolves the first symbol; it doesn't parse the entire
A>   callgraph.  If it fails to lookup then it doesn't print anything.
A>   
A>   '-a' instead does a symbol and file:line lookup for each address in each
A>   callgraph and will happily print the address itself with no lookup
A>   information if it couldn't look things up.
A>   
A>   This makes it much easier to pull out individual records from a
A>   pmc data file and look at the callgraph information without having to
A>   hand-decode the addresses.
A>   
A>   Sponsored by:	Netflix, Inc.

Is it possible to spend 5 minutes and document new features in pmcstat(8)?
Please!

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Totus tuus, Glebius.