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    tracetool: Rewrite infrastructure as python modules · 650ab98d
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    The tracetool script is written in shell and has hit several portability
    problems due to shell quirks or external tools across host platforms.
    Additionally the amount of string processing and lack of real data
    structures makes it tough to implement code generator backends for
    tracers that are more complex.
    
    This patch replaces the shell version of tracetool with a Python
    version.  The new tracetool design is:
    
      scripts/tracetool.py - top-level script
      scripts/tracetool/backend/ - tracer backends live here (simple, ust)
      scripts/tracetool/format/  - output formats live here (.c, .h)
    
    There is common code for trace-events definition parsing so that
    backends can focus on generating code rather than parsing input.
    
    Support for all existing backends (nop, stderr, simple, ust,
    and dtrace) is added back in follow-up patches.
    
    [Commit description written by Stefan Hajnoczi]
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLluís Vilanova <vilanova@ac.upc.edu>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarStefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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