ctags-lang-systemtap(7)

💅 NAME 💅

ctags-lang-systemtap — random notes about tagging SystemTap source code with Universal Ctags ✨

okay bestie, this is the Universal Ctags manual page for the SystemTap language, section 7, and it's literally just a lil scrapbook of notes. no cap. let's get into it 🫶

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

the vibes, in command form:

ctags ... --languages=+SystemTap ...
ctags ... --language-force=SystemTap ...
ctags ... --map-SystemTap=+.stp ...

that's it, that's the whole mood 💖

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

this page is a grab-bag of random notes about tagging SystemTap scripts. not a full formal spec, just the stuff you need to know, collected together. it's giving "notes app at 2am but make it useful" 📝

🧚 Guests 🧚

so here's the cute part: the SystemTap parser doesn't do everything alone. it runs CPreProcessor as a guest parser on the areas surrounded by %{ and %}. like, it invites a friend over to handle that section. iconic collaboration behavior fr fr 💅

check it — here's input.stp:

%{
#define X 1
%}

and when you run it with --options=NONE -o - --sort=no --extras=+{guest} input.stp, the output.tags comes out looking like:

X       input.stp       /^#define X /;" d       file:

look at that. X got tagged, the guest parser did its lil thing, slay 🔥

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🌈 VERSIONS 🌈

⭐ Change since 0.0 ⭐

• new role attached for probe kind 👑

(the glow-up is real)

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🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

• ctags(1)
• SystemTap Language Reference <https://sourceware.org/systemtap/langref> (<https://sourceware.org/systemtap/langref/>)

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okay that's the whole page, bestie 💜 this was Universal Ctags version 6.2.1 doing the lord's work, and yeah — it's ctags-lang-systemtap(7), we been knew. go tag something cute 🦋✨