two errors - what are they?

[Frank Ch. Eigler]

Hi -

On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 11:48:36PM +0800, Peter Teoh wrote:
> >> 6429 is the same as 6510, and here within it is mentioned as
> >> fixed, right?

"resolved" means just that they latter was a duplicate of the former,
not that the underlying problem was fixed. 

> I see....thank you for the explanation.   Systemtap is highly
> sensitive to kernel version.   

We try not to be.

> ./runtime/alloc.c:
> #if LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(2,6,15)
> #else /* LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(2,6,15) */
> 
> we should be able to resolve the errors, and make it work for the
> different kernel version, correct?   [...]

Not quite that easy.  The recent unwind/symbol data gathering code is
not just of limited portability, but is also suspect in some other
ways.  This code is being reworked as we speak, but is not done.


- FChE