Re: [DTrace-devel] [PATCH 4/4] options: discontinue -xversion=V as a valid option

Alan Maguire <[email protected]>
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.dtrace
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On 17/12/2025 05:10, Kris Van Hees via DTrace-devel wrote:
> DTrace allowed setting a previous version to operate in compatibility
> mode.  Unfortunately, it was not fully implemented.  Translators are
> not really versioned, and if a translator uses an identifier that does
> not exist in the version specified in -xversion=V, data structures end
> up corrupted.
> 
> Since the usefulness of -xversion=V seems to be less than the effort
> needed to rectify the implementation, we are no longer supporting this
> option.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kris Van Hees <[email protected]>

wow, never even noticed this existed!

Reviewed-by: Alan Maguire <[email protected]>
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