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* 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