Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:34:24 -0400 | From | Masami Hiramatsu <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH tracing/kprobes v2 1/5] tracing/kprobes: Rename special variables syntax |
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Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 05:11:05PM -0400, Masami Hiramatsu wrote: >> Frederic Weisbecker wrote: >>> Hmm, the problem is that %1, %2, etc. is not very self-explainable. >>> >>> May be %arg1, %arg2, etc.. But would that sound confusing since we >>> have % for registers? >> >> As I sent right now, how about %argumentN ? it will not conflict with >> register names... >> > > There are archs that have %arg0 %arg1, ... as register names? > > Well, arg(n) looks shorter but I won't personnally mind if > we eventually chose %argumentN. It's also clear, self-explainable > and it won't collide.
Hmm, one idea hits me, how about this? :) - %register - %%spvars (%%retval, %%arg0)
Thank you,
-- Masami Hiramatsu
Software Engineer Hitachi Computer Products (America), Inc. Software Solutions Division
e-mail: mhiramat@redhat.com
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