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Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] Djprobe improvement patches (Re: Dynamicdjprobe)


On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 14:40 -0400, Karim Yaghmour wrote:
> > However, the right place for such an analyzer is likely not in or near
> > the djprobes code at all, in much the same way that the kprobes code
> > basically trusts the instruction address given by the caller.  For
> > example, as a part of future systemtap work, we may be able to do such
> > djprobes applicability checking based on debug info.
> 
> Sure, but then the djprobe mechanism is useless until such an analyzer
> becomes available.

It would not be useless. It would just be less useful in that it would
leave the task of correctly deciding probe locations to the programmer.

Arguably, this is pretty painful but, well, I could make you debug that
stupid tcl code I have to fix for a living ;-)

Mathieu
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