Re: rpctrace improvement -- how I'm going on

[Roland McGrath]

> On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 05:20:21PM -0400, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > I don't think rpctrace itself should do anything so fancy as parse
> > .defs files.  It can deal with simple text files containing lists of
> > numbers and names, and we can write some hacks to generate such files from
> > .defs files.
> 
> Well, it could do something useful with the argument names to the
> functions...

My point is that whatever it does, it should not parse a free-form input
file that has to go through cpp.  The .defs files should be processed
statically into table files whose format is tailored to make life easy (and
efficient) for rpctrace.