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Why does DTrace sometimes result in invalid address errors, but not always?

My program:

typedef struct objc_class {
    struct objc_class *isa;
    struct objc_class *super_class;
    char *name;
    long version;
    long info;
    long instance_size;
    void *ivars;
    void *methodLists;
    void *cache;
    void *protocols;
} *Class;
struct objc_object {
    Class isa;
};

/* Code to extract the class name from arg0 based on a snippet by Bill Bumgarner: http://friday.com/bbum/2008/01/26/objective-c-printing-class-name-from-dtrace/ */

objc$target:NSObject:-init:entry {
    printf("time: %llu\n", timestamp);
    printf("arg0: %p\n", arg0);
    obj = (struct objc_object *)copyin(arg0, sizeof(struct objc_object));
    printf("obj: %p\n", obj);
    printf("obj->isa: %p\n", obj->isa);
    isa = (Class)copyin((user_addr_t)obj->isa, sizeof(struct objc_class));
    printf("isa: %p\n", obj->isa);
    classname = copyinstr((user_addr_t)(isa->name));
    printf("classname: %s\n", classname);
}

Some output:

dtrace: script 'test.d' matched 1 probe
dtrace: error on enabled probe ID 1 (ID 61630: objc5936:NSObject:-init:entry): invalid address (0x90206b98) in action #8 at DIF offset 28
dtrace: error on enabled probe ID 1 (ID 61630: objc5936:NSObject:-init:entry): invalid address (0x90206b98) in action #8 at DIF offset 28
dtrace: error on enabled probe ID 1 (ID 61630: objc5936:NSObject:-init:entry): invalid address (0x90206b98) in action #8 at DIF offset 28
CPU     ID                    FUNCTION:NAME
  0  61630                      -init:entry time: 28391086668386
arg0: 1291ae10
obj: 6f0a1158
obj->isa: a023f360
isa: a023f360
classname: NSBitmapImageRep

  1  61630                      -init:entry time: 28391586872297
arg0: 12943560
obj: 6f4a1158
obj->isa: 2fca0
isa: 2fca0
classname: GrowlApplicationTicket

  1  61630                      -init:entry time: 28391586897807
arg0: 152060
obj: 6f4a1280
obj->isa: 2fe20
isa: 2fe20
classname: GrowlNotificationTicket

  2  61630                      -init:entry time: 28391079142905
arg0: 129482d0
obj: 700a1128
obj->isa: a0014140
isa: a0014140
classname: NSDistributedObjectsStatistics

  2  61630                      -init:entry time: 28391079252640
arg0: 147840
obj: 700a1250
obj->isa: a0014780
isa: a0014780
classname: NSDistantObjectTableEntry

Why mistakes? This seems to be the name of the class (the only one %s, and I don't get any errors if I delete it), but why does it consider that the names of some classes are invalid pointers?

Is there a way to get error messages to really tell which line of my DTrace program caused the problem?

Is there a way to invoke, object_getClassNameinstead of doing this dance with structure control?

For what it's worth, the program I'm tracking works fine - it doesn't crash, so I don't think the classes are really broken.

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