Mathieu Desnoyers <[email protected]> writes:
> [...]
> > I believe [printf formatting directives] are not
> > quite general enough either e.g. to describe a raw binary blob.
>
> If you want to dump a raw binary blob, what about :
> MARK(mysubsys_myevent, "char %p %u", blobptr, blobsize); where %p is
> a pointer to an array of char and %u the length ?
That involves new conventions beyond printf. Why not "%p %p %u %u"
for two blobs ... or why implicitly dereference the given pointers. A
probe handler unaware of a specific marker's semantics would not know
whether or not this is implied.
> My idea is to use the string to identify what is referred by a
> pointer, so it can be casted into this type with some kind of
> coherency between the marker and the probe.
I understand what you're using them for. To me, they just don't look
like a good fit.
> > I realize they serve a useful purpose in abbreviating what otherwise
> > one might have to do (like that multiplicity of STAP_MARK_* type/arity
> > permutations). [...]
>
> I think that duplicating the number of marker macros could easily make
> them unflexible and ugly. [...]
Inflexible and ugly in what way? Remember, the macro definitions can
be automatically generated. At the macro call site, there needs to be
little difference.
> [...] Good point, I will setup a va_args in the probe. When
> correctly used, however, there is no need to use the format string :
> we can directly get the variables from the var arg list if we know
> in advance what the string will be.
Do I understand you correctly that the probe handlers would be given
va_list values, and would have to call va_arg to yank out individual
actual arguments? So again type safety is a matter of explicit coding
(equivalent to correctly casting each type)?
- FChE
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