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authorFrank Ch. Eigler <fche@elastic.org>2009-04-01 22:50:47 -0400
committerFrank Ch. Eigler <fche@elastic.org>2009-04-01 22:52:33 -0400
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PR10019: --skip-badvars to suppress run-time memory errors too
* NEWS: Note this change. * hash.cxx (find_script_hash): Add s.skip_badvars into hash. * translate.cxx (translate_pass): Emit STP_SKIP_BADVARS. * runtime/loc2c-runtime.h (DEREF_FAULT, STORE_DEREF_FAULT): Provide dummy implementation if STP_SKIP_BADVARS.
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+* What's new
+
+- The --skip-badvars option now also suppresses run-time error
+ messages that would otherwise result from erroneous memory accesses.
+ Such accesses can originate from $context expressions fueled by
+ erroneous debug data, or by kernel_{long,string,...}() tapset calls.
+
* What's new in version 0.9.5
- New probes process().insn and process().insn.block that allows