On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 09:10:34AM +0530, Prateek Gupta wrote: > So, is the idea to remove all these code redundancies and provide a > structured way to support multiarchitecture in a new way or to extend the > current implementation? > > Regards, > Prateek
Do you really think I'd propose extending the current implementation (which I labelled "inherently unreliable") as a GSoC project? P.S. Top posting was not a good idea. > On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 5:11 AM, Dmitry V. Levin wrote: > > > On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 12:34:55AM +0530, Prateek Gupta wrote: > > > As far as I percieve, the multiarchitecture support project is about > > making > > > a hierarchial set of the parsers to firstly compiling all general parser > > > required by every arch and then compiling only those that are required by > > > the arch that the user's system has. > > > > No. Have a look at the code. For example, "struct old_sigaction32" and > > "struct new_sigaction32" in signal.c, there is a lot of code duplication > > of this kind all over strace code, and some structures are not yet > > duplicated thus leading to incorrect multiarch decoding. I think we > > cannot duplicate all structure definitions, thus I call the current > > multiarch support inherently unreliable. > > > > The idea of this project is to implement correct multiarch decoding > > in a way that would not require manual source code duplication. -- ldv
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