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Date:      Mon, 25 Jan 1999 22:39:54 -0500 (EST)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        Hidetoshi Shimokawa <simokawa@sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ktrace fix
Message-ID:  <13997.13901.726029.243005@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19990125211845Q.simokawa@sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
References:  <19990125211845Q.simokawa@sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp>

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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..

Drew
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