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From: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
To: Martin Hunt <hunt@redhat.com>
Cc: systemtap@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: next steps
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:58:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050921235818.GC3989@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1127337815.3462.25.camel@dragon>

Hi -

hunt wrote:

> The issues I see so far that I would like fixed include:
> If we can't make the language typeless, can we at least add some type of
> polymorphism?  [...]
> Support for variable args, mostly just for print() so it can take
> printf-like formatting. This is needed for printa() too.

These are worth considering, though do you think they would constitute
a big step forward in usability?

> Currently the translator writes a large amount of C code for every
> probe.  [...]

This is already being worked on under bug #1330.

- FChE

  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-21 23:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-20 15:50 Frank Ch. Eigler
2005-09-21 15:46 ` Richard J Moore
2005-09-21 20:56   ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2005-09-21 23:33     ` Richard J Moore
2005-09-29 13:00       ` Masami Hiramatsu
2005-09-21 21:24 ` Martin Hunt
2005-09-21 23:58   ` Frank Ch. Eigler [this message]
2005-09-26 15:12   ` Jose R. Santos
2005-09-26 15:36     ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2005-09-26 16:26       ` Jose R. Santos
2005-09-26 16:56         ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2005-09-26 21:34       ` Jose R. Santos
2005-09-26 22:13         ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2005-09-27 15:30           ` Jose R. Santos
2005-09-26 17:44     ` thoughts Mathieu Desnoyers
2005-09-26 18:19       ` thoughts [re LTT] Frank Ch. Eigler
2005-09-26 18:30         ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2005-09-26 19:45         ` Karim Yaghmour
2005-09-29 16:44       ` thoughts Jose R. Santos

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