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| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | stap.1.in | 10 |
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@ * What's new +- Typecasting with @cast now supports modules search paths, which is + useful in case there are multiple places where the type definition + may be found. For example: + @cast(sdev, "scsi_device", "kernel:scsi_mod")->sdev_state + - On-file flight recorder is supported. It allows stap to record huge trace log on the disk and to run in background. Passing -F option with -o option runs stap in background mode. In this @@ -788,10 +788,12 @@ and dereference the .I member value. The optional .I module -tells the translator where to look for information about that type. If -the module is not specified, it will default either to the probe module -for dwarf probes, or to "kernel" for functions and all other probes -types. +tells the translator where to look for information about that type. +Multiple modules may be specified as a list with +.IR : +separators. If the module is not specified, it will default either to +the probe module for dwarf probes, or to "kernel" for functions and all +other probes types. .PP When in guru mode, the translator will also allow scripts to assign new values to members of typecasted pointers. |