[DTrace-devel] [PATCH v4] trace: print alloca pointers as actual pointer values
Nick Alcock
nick.alcock at oracle.com
Wed Sep 17 15:03:33 UTC 2025
On 16 Sep 2025, Kris Van Hees verbalised:
> Because alloca pointers are stored internally as offsets into the
> scratchmem area, they were printed as small integers. They are
> now printed as actual pointer values into kernel space.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kris Van Hees <kris.van.hees at oracle.com>
So... the change is to generate real pointers for children of alloca
nodes too, and scalarize more aggressively? I don't really see what the
second part has to do with this change (and more specifically why it
didn't cause problems before now).
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