Re: [PATCH 3/3] omit symbol size field in print_symbol()

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 21:18 +0900, Akinobu Mita wrote:
> I can't find useful usage for the symbol size in print_symbol().
> And symbolsize seems to be fixed when vmlinux or modules are compiled.
> So we can calculate it from vmlinux or modules.


the use is that you can see if the EIP actually is inside the function,
or if the decoder is going bonkers. Quite useful feature that...


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