SystemTap 1.2 released

“= Systemtap frontend (stap) changes

“- Tapset-related man pages have been renamed. ‘man -k 3stap’
should show the installed list, which due to prefixing should no
longer collide over ordinary system functions.

“- User space marker arguments no longer use volatile if the
version of gcc, which must be at least 4.5.0, supports richer DWARF
debuginfo. Use cflags -DSTAP_SDT_VOLATILE=volatile or
-DSTAP_SDT_VOLATILE= when building the sys/sdt.h application to
override this either way.

“- A new command line flag ‘-W’ forces systemtap to abort
translation of a script if any warnings are produced. It is similar
to gcc’s -Werror. (If ‘-w’ is also supplied to suppress warnings,
it wins.)”

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