[dtrace-discuss] dtrace language reference

Jon Haslam
Mon, 14 May 2007 15:35:34 -0000

Hi Charlie,

> Is there anything like a formal language reference for D?  I keep
> running into little weird things (like commenting) that I can''t
find
> documented anywhere.

The Solaris Dynamic Tracing Guide should answer your questions:

http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-6223

It''s slightly out of date on some of the newer pieces of DTrace
but it should act as your formal reference.

Comments are discussed in Chapter 1 under the "Variables and
Arithmetic Expressions" section. I think the Contents and/or Index
in the guide aren''t very complete and maybe this is your issue here.

Feel free to log doc bugs if you see things that need improving.

Cheers.

Jon.