Better handling of arguments/literals from the command-line?

Frank Ch. Eigler fche@redhat.com
Tue Oct 7 12:05:00 GMT 2008


"Stone, Joshua I" <joshua.i.stone@intel.com> writes:

> [...]
> For parameters that are only used as literals in function/probe bodies,
> we could probably synthesize this global-as-parameter method implicitly.
> We could internally translate this:
>
>     probe begin { println(@1, $2) }
>
> into this:
>
>     global __string_arg1 = ""
>     global __long_arg2 = 0
>     probe begin { println(__string_arg1, __long_arg2) }

Not quite - the $num parameter series constitute pasted token
sequences, not simple numbers any more.


- FChE



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