Order "begin" probes are run

Frank Ch. Eigler fche@redhat.com
Tue Dec 12 19:04:00 GMT 2006


Hi -

On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 11:29:37AM -0800, Stone, Joshua I wrote:
> [...]
> Ok.  I checked in code on Friday to move to C-style initialization, and
> I think my changes made this ordering problem better as well [...]

Thanks.

> This would be fine if our numbers were always signed, but we have a
> bit of schizophrenia in that regard.  [...]

Yes, this is a good point.  In other tools in a similar context, we
ended up letting numeric operands span from the negative signed limit
(-2**63+1) to the positive unsigned limit (2**64-1).  Shall we?  For a
small extra bribe, -2**63 could be fine too.  But let's reject numbers
outside that range. 

- FChE



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