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Re: Hitachi djprobe mechanism
- From: Karim Yaghmour <karim at opersys dot com>
- To: "Keshavamurthy, Anil S" <anil dot s dot keshavamurthy at intel dot com>
- Cc: Satoshi Oshima <soshima at redhat dot com>, Richard J Moore <richardj_moore at uk dot ibm dot com>, systemtap at sources dot redhat dot com, Andi Kleen <ak at suse dot de>, Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj at krystal dot dyndns dot org>, Masami Hiramatsu <hiramatu at sdl dot hitachi dot co dot jp>, Masami Hiramatsu <masami dot hiramatsu at gmail dot com>, michel dot dagenais at polymtl dot ca, Roland McGrath <roland at redhat dot com>, sugita at sdl dot hitachi dot co dot jp
- Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 19:16:19 -0400
- Subject: Re: Hitachi djprobe mechanism
- Organization: Opersys inc.
- References: <44BDAFB888F59F408FAE3CC35AB4704101E98E00@orsmsx409>
- Reply-to: karim at opersys dot com
Keshavamurthy, Anil S wrote:
> Can be done provided you take care of all the issues that has been
> discussed on this mailing list.
> Let's all wait for Hitachi's djprobe patch to show up before we can
> comment further on this topic.
I wish it were that simple. In as far as I can see, based on the
answers I have received, it seems that the implications of some
of the assumptions being made have not been seriously thought through.
If nothing else, I just don't see how one can claim to be able to
figure out whether something on a stack is a pointer or an address.
A patch won't change things like that.
Karim
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