[dtrace-discuss] Handling userland char ** pointers

[Chip Bennett]

Nicolas Williams wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 02:55:26PM -0700, Jonathan Adams wrote:
>   
>> The problem is that the expansion is being done in different places.  There
>> are some plans (nothing implemented yet, as far as I know) to have D more
>> directly allow manipulation of user data, which would probably help here.
>>     
>
> It would be very nice if DTrace could be aware of user-land CTF data and
> able to chase pointers in user-land, though it might complicate the
> syntax.
>
> Perhaps a keyword could be added to distinguish user-land and
> kernel-land types?  But, then header inclusion would be complicated (or
> maybe not).
>
> Nico
>   
#pragma D option simple-pointers  :-)