Re: [linuxtools-dev] Opxml question

[Severin Gehwolf <sgehwolf@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2011-02-11 at 10:04 -0200, Daniel HB wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 15:21 -0500, Severin Gehwolf wrote:
> > On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 13:24 -0600, Maynard Johnson wrote:
> > > Severin Gehwolf wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 08:48 -0600, Maynard Johnson wrote:
> > > >> Severin Gehwolf wrote:
> > > >>> On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 09:28 -0500, Andrew Overholt wrote:
> > > >>>> * William Cohen <wcohen@xxxxxxxxxx> [2011-02-10 09:27]:
> > > >>>>> On 02/10/2011 09:19 AM, Andrew Overholt wrote:
> > > >>>>>>> what's the status of abandoning opxml?
> > > >>>>>>> It seems to me that it's still in use...
> > > >>>>>>
> > > >>>>>> The upcoming 0.7 release removes its use.
> > > >>>>>>
> > > >>>>>> Andrew
> > > >>>>>> _______________________________________________
> > > >>>>>> linuxtools-dev mailing list
> > > >>>>>> linuxtools-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > > >>>>>> https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxtools-dev
> > > >>>>>
> > > >>>>>
> > > >>>>> Cool, that would allow the elimination of oprofile-devel and it's undesirable static libraries.
> > > >>>>>
> > > >>>>> Is 0.7 going to make it for Fedora 15?
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>> Perhaps.  I'll also have to verify my above statement :)
> > > >>>
> > > >>> The R0_7_0 tag and trunk don't use opxml anymore. What's left is some
> > > >>> left-over code removal and documentation update.
> > > > 
> > > >> So I presume the updated oprofile plugin will leverage the native XML
> > > >> output from opreport, right? 
> > > > 
> > > > Yes.
> > > > 
> > > >>  And how about the events list?  Does it
> > > >> use the XML output from ophelp? 
> > > > 
> > > > Yes.
> > > > 
> > > >>  If so, this is really good news from
> > > >> my perspective since (as I had noted in my Jan 14 posting) the current
> > > >> version of this plugin is completely broken for IBM Power systems.
> > > > 
> > > > We would very much appreciate feedback about the Eclipse oprofile
> > > > plug-in >= 0.7.0 on IBM Power systems.
> > 
> > > My team member, Daniel (on cc), will have a look.  I presume he should
> > > install from
> > > http://download.eclipse.org/technology/linuxtools/updates-nightly?
> > 
> > Yes. He can use
> > http://wiki.eclipse.org/images/7/77/Eclipse-oprofile_testproj_factorial.zip as an example project to try profiling from within Eclipse.
> 
> Just made the test using the factorial project. Got the following error
> on a popup window called "Problem occurred":
> 
> "Launching factorial" has encountered a problem.
> 
> An internal error occurred during: "Launching factorial".
> 
> 
> When hitting the "Details" button:
> 
> An internal error occurred during: "Launching factorial".
> java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
> 
> 
> Test was done using Eclipse SDK 3.6.2 with CDT 7.0.2. Java version
> 1.5.0. OS used was RHEL 6.0. processor was a Power6 3,5Ghz on a LPar
> with 2GB of RAM.

I assume you did: Right click on binary in CDT view => Profile as =>
Profile with Oprofile, right?

Can you run the binary without errors? Right click => Run as => Local
C/C++ Application

Just making sure this isn't a CDT problem :)

Thanks,
--Severin