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| author | Josh Stone <jistone@redhat.com> | 2009-02-18 17:59:14 -0800 |
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| committer | Josh Stone <jistone@redhat.com> | 2009-02-18 17:59:54 -0800 |
| commit | 60ea929119a82b462bc32dd42a48972ee04420e0 (patch) | |
| tree | e069aa432873f6f300445278f437a1d6a73e52b5 /NEWS | |
| parent | 38b925085d04328c9c0511fc6a7de95a64867835 (diff) | |
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Add NEWS and manpage info about @cast()
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@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@ * What's new in version 0.9 +- Typecasting is now supported using the @cast operator. A script can + define a pointer type for a "long" value, and then access type members + using the same syntax as with $target variables. For example, this will + retrieve the parent pid from a kernel task_struct: + @cast(pointer, "task_struct", "kernel")->parent->pid + - process().mark() probes are now possible to trace static user space markers put in programs with the STAP_PROBE macro using the new sys/sdt.h include file. This also provides dtrace compatible markers |