Systemtap Upcoming Feature: Address to File:Line Mapping

Frank Ch. Eigler fche@redhat.com
Sat Dec 20 12:58:00 GMT 2014


ajakop wrote:

> [...]
>> Glancing at that pf3.stp sample, maybe [u]sym* family of functions
>> should more regularly throw catchable errors in case of errors,
>> instead of hard-coding a policy of returning a hexified parameter. [...]
>
> Would this not cause backwards compatibility issues? Or were you thinking
> this change would be effective for SystemTap versions >=2.7?

Yes & yes - akin to what we did earlier in PR15044.

> Should I open a PR for this change and another for the feature below?

Yes, please!

- FChE

PS.  Yes.



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