Re: Access to kernel data structures

["Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche at redhat dot com>]

Hi -


brad.chen wrote:
> The restriction of only being able to look at strings
> and integers seems a bit severe. This seems a lot less
> powerful than DTrace, which appears to allow you to
> work with any kernel data (although you can't iterate).
> [...]

The intent is that any reasonable target data types may be processed
within the target expression syntax du jour, but the final result
would be cast to a string or number value for storage within systemtap
variables.  I believe that matches dtrace.


- FChE