Accessing user-space global variables in timer.profile?

[agentzh]

Hello Josh!

On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 6:19 PM, Josh Stone wrote:
> Very cool!

Glad you like it :)

>  In fact, if we can tease the script portions of this away
> from perl-generation, it would be great to make an example script out of
> this.  Hey, I'm sure if you're probing perl, then you're perfectly
> comfortable writing perl to drive stap, but we need to be kinder in the
> examples we present. :)
>

Fair enough :)

> If I read it correctly, the dynamic pieces of this script are mostly
> just to avoid repeating yourself - is that right?  I think with a
> parameter for $perl_path, you can do the rest with macros.  Maybe a
> second parameter for the $minor_version variations.
>

Yes, that's correct.

> I certainly won't force you to change, but it would make a nice in-tree
> showcase for @var-module support. :)

I'm glad to maintain a perl-free in-tree version of this tool. I can
make it into a separate patch if you'd accept it :)

Thanks!
-agentzh