Hello, Some time ago, frustrated by the fact the ltrace doesn't work on parisc-linux, I started looking into what it would take to make it work on parisc-linux. I discovered ltrace made a number of assumptions that are not valid on several new architectures (at that time - ppc, ia64, parisc). From my work on gdb I started looking at a different, more robust ways to trace library calls, and put together a "proof-of-concept" that I named atrace (another trace). Sadly, while I was able to quickly get it to work on parisc, ia64, and i386 to prove out my idea, I ran out of time to maintain it (sounds familiar?) and the code set stale (albeit on a public svn server) for a few years. I had contacted the ltrace maintainer at that time to see if the changes can be incorporated into ltrace, but received no response.
Recently because of some discussions on the parisc-linux mailing list I checked out the code again and, after fixing a few bitrotten bits, got it to work again on parisc-linux and i386. atrace can generate both ltrace and strace like output [1]. It doesn't have all the bells and whistles of strace, but at least on parisc it seems to work more reliably, even after so many years. (strace is currently broken on parisc). Maybe somebody here would be interested to take a look at it and see if there are any useful bits :) I still use it from time to time and if there is interest I'll put it up on a public git repository or something, but if somebody here think there are useful bits that can be folded into a project like strace that has a more active maintainership, that will be even better :) You can get a copy of the current atrace code from http://gsyprf11.external.hp.com/~tausq/atrace.tgz [2] randolph [1] "atrace --ltrace a.out" or "atrace --strace a.out" [2] Neither the author nor this project is affiliated with HP. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but thanks to Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image processing features enabled. http://p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com _______________________________________________ Strace-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/strace-devel
