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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/include/ctf.h b/include/ctf.h index 6db2742..698aab3 100644 --- a/include/ctf.h +++ b/include/ctf.h @@ -89,13 +89,13 @@ extern "C" entries and reorder them accordingly (dropping the indexes in the process). Variable records (as distinct from data objects) provide a modicum of support - for non-ELF systems, mapping a variable name to a CTF type ID. The variable - names are sorted into ASCIIbetical order, permitting binary searching. We do - not define how the consumer maps these variable names to addresses or + for non-ELF systems, mapping a variable or function name to a CTF type ID. + The names are sorted into ASCIIbetical order, permitting binary searching. + We do not define how the consumer maps these variable names to addresses or anything else, or indeed what these names represent: they might be names looked up at runtime via dlsym() or names extracted at runtime by a debugger or anything else the consumer likes. Variable records with identically- - named entries in the data object section are removed. + named entries in the data object or function index section are removed. The data types section is a list of variable size records that represent each type, in order by their ID. The types themselves form a directed graph, |