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Diffstat (limited to 'stap.1.in')
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@@ -181,8 +181,7 @@ even if they do not have an explicit probe placed into them. .BI \-o " FILE" Send standard output to named file. In bulk mode, percpu files will start with FILE_ (FILE_cpu with -F) followed by the cpu number. -This supports a subset of strftime(3) (%%, %C, %Y, %y, %m, %d, %e, %F, -%H, %I, %j, %l, %M, %S, %R, %T, %u, %w) for FILE. +This supports strftime(3) formats for FILE. .TP .BI \-c " CMD" Start the probes, run CMD, and exit when CMD finishes. @@ -800,6 +799,15 @@ 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 +The translator can create its own module with type information from a header +surrounded by angle brackets, in case normal debuginfo is not available. For +kernel headers, prefix it with "kernel" to use the appropriate build system. +All other headers are build with default GCC parameters into a user module. +.SAMPLE +@cast(tv, "timeval", "<sys/time.h>")->tv_sec +@cast(task, "task_struct", "kernel<linux/sched.h>")->tgid +.ESAMPLE +.PP When in guru mode, the translator will also allow scripts to assign new values to members of typecasted pointers. .PP |