From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30345 invoked by alias); 1 Aug 2005 23:05:59 -0000 Mailing-List: contact systemtap-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: systemtap-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 30335 invoked by uid 22791); 1 Aug 2005 23:05:57 -0000 Message-ID: <42EEAD43.2060101@opersys.com> Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 23:05:00 -0000 From: Karim Yaghmour Reply-To: karim@opersys.com Organization: Opersys inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040805 Netscape/7.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, fr, fr-be, fr-ca, fr-fr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Keshavamurthy, Anil S" CC: Satoshi Oshima , Richard J Moore , systemtap@sources.redhat.com, Andi Kleen , Mathieu Desnoyers , Masami Hiramatsu , Masami Hiramatsu , michel.dagenais@polymtl.ca, Roland McGrath , sugita@sdl.hitachi.co.jp Subject: Re: Hitachi djprobe mechanism References: <44BDAFB888F59F408FAE3CC35AB4704101E98E00@orsmsx409> In-Reply-To: <44BDAFB888F59F408FAE3CC35AB4704101E98E00@orsmsx409> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2005-q3/txt/msg00227.txt.bz2 Keshavamurthy, Anil S wrote: > Can be done provided you take care of all the issues that has been > discussed on this mailing list. > Let's all wait for Hitachi's djprobe patch to show up before we can > comment further on this topic. I wish it were that simple. In as far as I can see, based on the answers I have received, it seems that the implications of some of the assumptions being made have not been seriously thought through. If nothing else, I just don't see how one can claim to be able to figure out whether something on a stack is a pointer or an address. A patch won't change things like that. Karim -- Author, Speaker, Developer, Consultant Pushing Embedded and Real-Time Linux Systems Beyond the Limits http://www.opersys.com || karim@opersys.com || 1-866-677-4546