Re: eat your own dog food?

[jamal <hadi-fAAogVwAN2Kw5LPnMra/2Q@public.gmane.org>]

On Thu, 2008-10-01 at 11:39 -0200, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 07:42:48AM -0500, jamal escreveu:

> :-) I'll check that later :-P But some holes are inevitable, the best
> thing is to try:
> 
> [acme@doppio pahole]$ pahole --packable build/pahole
> argp_child      32      24      8
> argp_option     48      40      8
> _IO_FILE        216     208     8
> [acme@doppio pahole]$
> 
> Which is kinda interesting, huh? Only glibc stuff :-)

hehe;-> damn those dog-food cans.

> No need for lynching this time. 

ok;-> 

> What we have to do is:
> 
> . make the addr_size configurable and when the user specifies an
> addr_size that is different than the one in the DWARF info being
> processed, fixup it in all the data structures. The --reorganize code
> already does many kinds of fixups, it would be one more.
> 
> . moreover, specify alignment rules, that way the reorganization code
> would process all the structs, applying this rule.
> 
> IOW: its possible, should be fairly easy to implement the addr_size and
> from that the alignment rules.
> 
> I'll try to work on the addr_size first, perhaps this weekend as I've
> been promising to do way too many things in many fronts :-\

ok, cool - so i should be able say something like "--add_size 64-bit"
and it will follow something like the MIPS EABI i posted earlier? [I
think x86_64 will work the same way too if i am not mistaken].

cheers,
jamal

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