Fwd: R.F.C. Should we abandon User-land probes?

[James Dickens]

On 10/20/05, Martin Hunt <hunt@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 15:06 -0500, James Dickens wrote:
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> >  yes those work fine in kernel code, since variables to access
> > components of the structs/unions are allready availible for the
> > systemtap code and tapsets, but that is not the case of userland,
> > especially in the case of C++ classes/struct. So the user required to
> > enable guru-mode.
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> Whatever gave you that idea?

because systemtap doesn't understand struct/union etc. how would it
know what are the members of the struct

struct linked_list {
   struct *linked_list prev, next;


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