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author | Dave Brolley <brolley@redhat.com> | 2009-11-03 16:22:36 -0500 |
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committer | Dave Brolley <brolley@redhat.com> | 2009-11-03 16:22:36 -0500 |
commit | 899b66209b0146560f0efc33efe58a4be3577df3 (patch) | |
tree | 7b64764b917c359a99d0adcf6c68a2d73cd52be7 /NEWS | |
parent | d4ad7984018ff769cbb662342be7e501632c0bea (diff) | |
parent | 89651893a8ec51ee4d77ddfd57019e350ad7b169 (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'master' of ssh://sources.redhat.com/git/systemtap
Conflicts:
Makefile.in
configure
doc/Makefile.in
doc/SystemTap_Tapset_Reference/Makefile.in
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@@ -1,5 +1,21 @@ * What's new +- Any output line that starts with "ERROR", as in error("foo"), will + promote a "Pass 5: run failed", and the return code is 1. + +- Systemtap now warns about global variables being referenced from other + script files. This aims to protect against unintended local-vs-global + namespace collisions such as: + + % cat some_tapset.stp + probe baz.one = bar { foo = $foo; bar = $bar } + % cat end_user_script.stp + global foo # intended to be private variable + probe timer.s(1) { foo ++ } + probe baz.* { println(foo, pp()) } + % stap end_user_script.stp + WARNING: cross-file global variable reference to foo from some_tapset.stp + - Preprocessor conditional for kernel configuration testing: %( CONFIG_foo == "y" %? ... %) |