On 4/19/2017 2:53 AM, Jiri Olsa wrote:

On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 06:21:05AM +0800, Jin Yao wrote:

SNIP

quoted

+const char *branch_type_name(int type)
+{
+	const char *branch_names[PERF_BR_MAX] = {
+		"N/A",
+		"JCC",
+		"JMP",
+		"IND_JMP",
+		"CALL",
+		"IND_CALL",
+		"RET",
+		"SYSCALL",
+		"SYSRET",
+		"IRQ",
+		"INT",
+		"IRET",
+		"FAR_BRANCH",
+	};
+
+	if ((type >= 0) && (type < PERF_BR_MAX))
+		return branch_names[type];
+
+	return NULL;

looks like we should add util/branch.c with above functions
and merge it with util/parse-branch-options.c

we create new file even for less code ;-)

thanks,
jirka

Could we directly add branch_type_name() in util/parse-branch-options.c?

I just feel it's a bit waste of creating a new file for less code. :)

Thanks
Jin Yao