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
On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 5:11 AM, Dmitry V. Levin <l...@altlinux.org> 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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