Building your own parser

If you want to create your own parser, consider the structure of traceprinter as a starting point. This utility consists of a long list of callback definitions, followed by a fairly simple parsing procedure. Each of the callback definitions is for printing.

The following sections give a brief introduction to the building blocks of your own parser that uses the traceparser library, and some of the issues you'll need to handle. Alternatively, you can write a parser that uses C Library calls to read and parse event data from the kernel trace file; for an example, see Parser in the Sample Programs appendix.