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Re: [PATCH,resubmit] Add static probes to runtime linker

>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov@google.com> writes:

Gary> Are named probes a good solution for you here?

Paul> As I said before, if the stap probe compiles to a single-byte NOP,
Paul> then it's hostile to in-process debuggers.  If {un,}map_complete
Paul> probes could be made sufficiently "wide" for an in-process debugger to
Paul> be able to place a JMP there, that would go a long way to help.

I think that's an orthogonal issue to getting Gary's patch glibc in.

Tom
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