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Re: [PATCH doc/langref.tex] Add pointer typecasting information
On 09/01/2009 12:50 PM, Robb Romans wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Sep 2009, Josh Stone wrote:
>
>> On 09/01/2009 10:17 AM, Robb Romans wrote:
>>> Please review. Thanks.
>>
>> Hi Robb,
>
> Hi Josh.
>
>> It looks like you mostly just took the text from the stap manpage. For
>> the parts that you modified, could you please submit those improvements
>> as a manpage patch too?
>
> Yes, I'm told that the information sent to me to include came from man
> pages. I will look at submitting patches for the man pages, but my first
> priority is to get the Language Reference updated. Could we get the
> patches in there, first?
Yeah, we can do it separately; I just want to make sure it's complete
and consistent.
>> The manpage also talks about searching multiple modules separated by a
>> colon and using headers in case debuginfo isn't available. That should
>> be documented in the language reference as well.
>
> Thanks. What is the specific file (manpage) that contains this information
> in the systemtap git tree?
It may be that you were sent an old version of the manpage. @cast with
multiple modules came in 0.9.5, and @casting headers came in 0.9.7.
This is all in the main manpage, stap.1.in.
Josh