[PATCH tracing/kprobes v2 1/5] tracing/kprobes: Rename special variables syntax

[Frederic Weisbecker]

On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 05:11:05PM -0400, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
>> Hmm, the problem is that %1, %2, etc. is not very self-explainable.
>>
>> May be %arg1, %arg2, etc.. But would that sound confusing since we
>> have % for registers?
>
> As I sent right now, how about %argumentN ? it will not conflict with
> register names...
>

There are archs that have %arg0 %arg1, ... as register names?

Well, arg(n) looks shorter but I won't personnally mind if
we eventually chose %argumentN. It's also clear, self-explainable
and it won't collide.