From dcfd7fed7088871f46d9da7183e485877fb2d81f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@elastic.org>
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 22:50:47 -0400
Subject: PR10019: --skip-badvars to suppress run-time memory errors too

* NEWS: Note this change.
* hash.cxx (find_script_hash): Add s.skip_badvars into hash.
* translate.cxx (translate_pass): Emit STP_SKIP_BADVARS.
* runtime/loc2c-runtime.h (DEREF_FAULT, STORE_DEREF_FAULT): Provide
  dummy implementation if STP_SKIP_BADVARS.
---
 NEWS | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

(limited to 'NEWS')

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index ec204442..96e14b70 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+* What's new
+
+- The --skip-badvars option now also suppresses run-time error
+  messages that would otherwise result from erroneous memory accesses.
+  Such accesses can originate from $context expressions fueled by
+  erroneous debug data, or by kernel_{long,string,...}() tapset calls.
+
 * What's new in version 0.9.5
 
  - New probes process().insn and process().insn.block that allows
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