From 7b9361d50ad46a92838f9707604d05d71e595f96 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: fche <fche>
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 15:41:30 +0000
Subject: * removed information about former automagic string conversion

---
 stapprobes.5.in | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/stapprobes.5.in b/stapprobes.5.in
index f1a4451b..d457f260 100644
--- a/stapprobes.5.in
+++ b/stapprobes.5.in
@@ -137,9 +137,10 @@ allows limited traversal of structures, pointers, and arrays.
 .TP
 $var
 refers to an in-scope variable "var".  If it's an integer-like type,
-it will be cast to a 64-bit int for systemtap script use.  If it's
-a string-like type (char *), it will be copied into a systemtap
-string.
+it will be cast to a 64-bit int for systemtap script use.  String-like
+pointers (char *) may be copied to systemtap string values using the
+.IR kernel_string " or " user_string
+functions.
 .TP
 $var->field
 traversal to a structure's field.  The indirection operator
-- 
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