From: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
To: Martin Hunt <hunt@redhat.com>
Cc: systemtap@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: command line arguments
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 12:24:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060224122448.GG20902@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1140760330.5306.3.camel@dragon>
Hi -
hunt wrote:
> [...]
> Why not do things the standard way and just pass all the args in as
> strings?
Because then they cannot substitute for numeric literals, such as
parameters to probe point functors, histogram parameters.
> Encoding the type in the args makes the command line very inflexible.
> No way to do variable args. No way to do standard options, etc.
How so? If you want to look at them as strings, only refer to
@1....@NNN.
- FChE
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-24 12:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-23 22:42 Frank Ch. Eigler
2006-02-24 5:52 ` Martin Hunt
2006-02-24 12:24 ` Frank Ch. Eigler [this message]
2006-02-24 18:44 ` Martin Hunt
2006-02-25 21:38 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2006-02-27 20:34 ` Martin Hunt
2006-02-24 13:42 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2006-02-24 15:51 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2006-02-24 20:59 ` Roland McGrath
2006-02-24 21:22 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2006-02-23 23:41 Stone, Joshua I
2006-02-24 1:00 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
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