Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 10:04:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: Hidetoshi Shimokawa <simokawa@sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ktrace fix Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9901261002320.88955-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <13997.13901.726029.243005@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > Hidetoshi Shimokawa writes: > > Current ktrace doesn't trace syscalls on alpha. > > Here is a fix for that. The only problem is that > > I have to bloat struct ktr_syscall to avoid alignment problem. > > Is this acceptable for i386? > > Well, I can't speak for i386 people but I'm enthusiastic about having > a working ktrace on the alpha. Without redoing things so that the > compiler has enough information to be able to align the stuff which > follows that ktr_syscall struct, I don't see a clean way around the > 4-byte bloat.. Possibly ifdef it? I think that all future 64bit arches would be affected by this problem. Personally I don't mind the extra space usage on i386. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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