Question about line number probing

Frank Ch. Eigler fche@redhat.com
Wed Jan 24 23:27:00 GMT 2007


Hi -

> > probe kernel.statement("*@foo.c:1234") {
> >    printf("arg2 = %d\n", $arg2);
> > }

> Yeah, I tried that.  It said it couldn't locate arg2. :(

Yes, sometimes the compiler makes the value effectively disappear.
Running gdb on a similarly optimized binary would give the same error.
Try neighbouring line numbers (though IIRC systemtap already makes
suggestions like that).

- FChE



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