linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] perf fixes

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Date:	Mon, 30 Sep 2013 11:54:28 -0700
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc:	Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@...ppelsdorf.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...radead.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] perf fixes

> The blurb you wrote in the changelog:
> 
> | The libbfd C++ demangler doesn't seem to deal with cloned functions, 
> | like symbol.clone.NUM.
> |
> | Just strip the dot part before demangling and add it back later.
> 
> Only alludes to a C++ symbol resolution annoyance and thus isn't very 
> informative.

The issue was that I saw a long unreadable line noise string in report/top,
instead of a demangled function. After I stripped the postfix I got the demangled
symbol as expected.

-Andi
-- 
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