[swift-users] DTrace Static (USDT) Probes & Swift

[Daniel Eggert]

What are the thoughts on dtrace & Swift?

Would a sane approach be to teach the dtrace tool to generate SIL?


Currently 'dtrace -h’ will generate a C header file containing macro definitions for USDT probes. Could this be replaced by a tool than converts such a ‘.d’ file into SIL?

/Daniel



For example: ‘dtrace -h' it will turn


provider foo {
  probe bar(int, intptr_t);
  probe baz(char *, int);
};



into



/*
 * Generated by dtrace(1M).
 */

#ifndef	_PROVIDER_H
#define	_PROVIDER_H

#include <unistd.h>

#ifdef	__cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif

#define FOO_STABILITY "___dtrace_stability$foo$v1$1_1_0_1_1_0_1_1_0_1_1_0_1_1_0"

#define FOO_TYPEDEFS "___dtrace_typedefs$foo$v2"

#if !defined(DTRACE_PROBES_DISABLED) || !DTRACE_PROBES_DISABLED

#define	FOO_BAR(arg0, arg1) \
do { \
	__asm__ volatile(".reference " FOO_TYPEDEFS); \
	__dtrace_probe$foo$bar$v1$696e74$696e747074725f74(arg0, arg1); \
	__asm__ volatile(".reference " FOO_STABILITY); \
} while (0)
#define	FOO_BAR_ENABLED() \
	({ int _r = __dtrace_isenabled$foo$bar$v1(); \
		__asm__ volatile(""); \
		_r; })
#define	FOO_BAZ(arg0, arg1) \
do { \
	__asm__ volatile(".reference " FOO_TYPEDEFS); \
	__dtrace_probe$foo$baz$v1$63686172202a$696e74(arg0, arg1); \
	__asm__ volatile(".reference " FOO_STABILITY); \
} while (0)
#define	FOO_BAZ_ENABLED() \
	({ int _r = __dtrace_isenabled$foo$baz$v1(); \
		__asm__ volatile(""); \
		_r; })


extern void __dtrace_probe$foo$bar$v1$696e74$696e747074725f74(int, intptr_t);
extern int __dtrace_isenabled$foo$bar$v1(void);
extern void __dtrace_probe$foo$baz$v1$63686172202a$696e74(const char *, int);
extern int __dtrace_isenabled$foo$baz$v1(void);

#else

#define	FOO_BAR(arg0, arg1) \
do { \
	} while (0)
#define	FOO_BAR_ENABLED() (0)
#define	FOO_BAZ(arg0, arg1) \
do { \
	} while (0)
#define	FOO_BAZ_ENABLED() (0)

#endif /* !defined(DTRACE_PROBES_DISABLED) || !DTRACE_PROBES_DISABLED */


#ifdef	__cplusplus
}
#endif

#endif	/* _PROVIDER_H */