linux-kernel - Re: Portable syscall inspection

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Message-ID: <3d57814d0705310327q632aaa10p29254ff777d07b31@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 31 May 2007 20:27:14 +1000
From:	"Trent Waddington" <trent.waddington@...il.com>
To:	"Ralf Baechle" <ralf@...ux-mips.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Portable syscall inspection

On 5/29/07, Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org> wrote:
> Also consider that some architectures pass parts of the arguments in
> registers which on yet others are passed in memory.  Sometimes padding
> arguments are needed and many more oddities.  Similar for results.
> Inescapably such a program is a perment maintenance nightmare.

Yes, I see.  This nightmare appears to be the burden of the strace
people, god bless them.  I'm looking at moving their plethora of
#ifdefs into a library so others can be spared the nightmare.

Thanks,

Trent
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