From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3A8D8F81.7BB25F04@opersys.com> From: Karim Yaghmour MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Jacobowitz Cc: Anton Blanchard , linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: ltrace for ppc References: <20010214081000.A28509@linuxcare.com> <20010215124800.A22625@drow.them.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 15:58:57 -0500 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: If you're interested in ltrace, you may want to take a look at the Linux trace toolkit (http://www.opersys.com/LTT). It runs fine on PPC too. Best regards, Karim Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 08:10:00AM +1100, Anton Blanchard wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > ltrace is a cool little program for tracing library calls. I ported it > > to ppclinux a while ago but the ltrace maintainer seems to have ignored > > my patch. > > > > For anyone interested the patch can be found at: > > > > http://linuxcare.com.au/anton/patches/ltrace_ppc_patch > > > > It should apply cleanly to the latest source (I got mine from the debian > > archive). > > You did? Wow! I spent ages trying to do this... > > Oh, looking at your patch I remember what happened. It's a bloody > miracle that ltrace works at all on any architecture; the PLT tricks > that the PPC plays are not at all uncommon, as I recall. I got > derailed trying to make it insert breakpoints at the proper time. > > Thanks for the patch; I'll probably keep bugging the author about > this... > > Dan > > /--------------------------------\ /--------------------------------\ > | Daniel Jacobowitz |__| SCS Class of 2002 | > | Debian GNU/Linux Developer __ Carnegie Mellon University | > | dan@debian.org | | dmj+@andrew.cmu.edu | > \--------------------------------/ \--------------------------------/ > -- =================================================== Karim Yaghmour karym@opersys.com Operating System Consultant (Linux kernel, real-time and distributed systems) =================================================== ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/