Re: strace on Linux/MIPS?

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>]

On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 04:46:56PM -0700, Jun Sun wrote:

> > > Has anybody been successful in trying to get strace running on
> > > Linux/MIPS?  I managed to get 4.2, with a little from CVS tree, compiled
> > > and run.  However, it does not quite right.  It only prints the first
> > > system. See below.  Verified that this is the same behavior on both
> > > 2.3.99-pre3 and 2.4.0-test2.
> > 
> > Your kernel is too old.
> 
> Wow, a couple days is "too old".  I guest that is Linux speed.

Software is like fish, it starts to smell soon :-)

> > Ralf fixed some things in ptrace a few days
> > ago. 
> 
> Great!  Can you pinpoint the related files?  I took a snapshot of CVS on
> 6/27 and hacked heavily to get it work on my NEC board.  It would be
> very difficult for me to move to the new kernel.  It would be better if
> I can just reverse-merge with the related changes.

arch/mips/kernel/scall_o32.S
arch/mips/tools/offset.c
arch/mips64/kernel/scall_64.S
arch/mips64/kernel/scall_o32.S
arch/mips64/tools/offset.c

  Ralf