Hi Yonghong,

My understanding is that the limit of 10 trac epoint arguments was initially chosen because it matched with the argumente limit in SDT probe points and there is optional integration between LTTng trace points and SDT. More recent versions of SDT, as of 1.7+, support up to 12 arguments for probe points.

Beyond that, there may be standards/compiler-specific limits for the number of parameters to macros and/or function calls, but I don't think we're close to hitting any of those.

Note that the LTTNG_UST_TRACEPOINT_FIELDS macro doesn't share the same 10 field limit.

Therefore, one work-around that is possible to to pack the values into a custom structure to reduce the number of arguments that need to be set in the lTTNG_UST_TRACEPOINT_ARGS macro.

eg.

```
LTTNG_UST_TRACEPOINT_EVENT(
   tp,
   many,
   LTTNG_UST_TP_ARGS(
      const struct Sample*, mystruct
   ),
   LTTNG_UST_TP_FIELDS(
      lttng_ust_field_integer(int, a, mystruct->a)
      lttng_ust_field_integer(int, b, mystruct->b)
      lttng_ust_field_integer(int, c, mystruct->c)
      lttng_ust_field_integer(int, e, mystruct->d)
      lttng_ust_field_integer(int, f, mystruct->e)
      lttng_ust_field_float(double, g, mystruct->g)
      lttng_ust_field_float(double, h, mystruct->h)
      lttng_ust_field_float(double, i, mystruct->i)
      lttng_ust_field_float(double, j, mystruct->j)
      lttng_ust_field_float(double, k, mystruct->k)
      lttng_ust_field_string(string_field, mystruct->thing)
      lttng_ust_field_string(string_field2, mystruct->thing2)
   )
)

```

Hope this helps!

thanks,
kienan

On 2023-11-27 22:26, Yonghong Yan via lttng-dev wrote:
I have a situation where I need to record more than 10 fields. If you can extend it to support more, but not introduce overhead of handling such rare cases, that will be great.

Thanks
Yonghong


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