From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2085 invoked by alias); 24 Feb 2006 12:24:53 -0000 Received: (qmail 2074 invoked by uid 22791); 24 Feb 2006 12:24:52 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (66.187.233.31) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 12:24:51 +0000 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k1OCOo3L005709 for ; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 07:24:50 -0500 Received: from pobox.toronto.redhat.com (pobox.toronto.redhat.com [172.16.14.4]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id k1OCOn108685; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 07:24:49 -0500 Received: from touchme.toronto.redhat.com (IDENT:postfix@touchme.toronto.redhat.com [172.16.14.9]) by pobox.toronto.redhat.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k1OCOng2009345; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 07:24:49 -0500 Received: from ton.toronto.redhat.com (ton.toronto.redhat.com [172.16.14.15]) by touchme.toronto.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FB618000E9; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 07:24:49 -0500 (EST) Received: from ton.toronto.redhat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ton.toronto.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k1OCOmEn006259; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 07:24:48 -0500 Received: (from fche@localhost) by ton.toronto.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id k1OCOm5L006208; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 07:24:48 -0500 Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 12:24:00 -0000 From: "Frank Ch. Eigler" To: Martin Hunt Cc: systemtap@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: command line arguments Message-ID: <20060224122448.GG20902@redhat.com> References: <20060223224218.GE20902@redhat.com> <1140760330.5306.3.camel@dragon> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1140760330.5306.3.camel@dragon> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Mailing-List: contact systemtap-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: systemtap-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-q1/txt/msg00621.txt.bz2 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