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* [Bug translator/11343] New: backward compatibility flags/conditionals
@ 2010-03-03  6:04 fche at redhat dot com
  2010-03-23 22:19 ` [Bug translator/11343] " fche at redhat dot com
  2010-04-08 21:18 ` fche at redhat dot com
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: fche at redhat dot com @ 2010-03-03  6:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: systemtap

With recent language changes (@defined, try/catch), as well as
tapset changes, it becomes a concern that existing scripts written for
older versions of systemtap may stop working.  One way to address this
would be to introduce:

- a stap command line option  --stap-compat=VERSION
- which would populate a new systemtap.session field
- which would inform the parser to parse a subset/variant of the language as of
$VERSION
- also provide a preprocessor conditional for tapsets' use
  %( systemtap_v >= "1.2" %? ... %: ... %)

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           Summary: backward compatibility flags/conditionals
           Product: systemtap
           Version: unspecified
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: translator
        AssignedTo: systemtap at sources dot redhat dot com
        ReportedBy: fche at redhat dot com


http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11343

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