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Re: Systemtap Upcoming Feature: Address to File:Line Mapping
- From: fche at redhat dot com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
- To: Abe Jakop <ajakop at redhat dot com>
- Cc: systemtap at sourceware dot org
- Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2014 07:58:38 -0500
- Subject: Re: Systemtap Upcoming Feature: Address to File:Line Mapping
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ajakop wrote:
> [...]
>> Glancing at that pf3.stp sample, maybe [u]sym* family of functions
>> should more regularly throw catchable errors in case of errors,
>> instead of hard-coding a policy of returning a hexified parameter. [...]
>
> Would this not cause backwards compatibility issues? Or were you thinking
> this change would be effective for SystemTap versions >=2.7?
Yes & yes - akin to what we did earlier in PR15044.
> Should I open a PR for this change and another for the feature below?
Yes, please!
- FChE
PS. Yes.