From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11768 invoked by alias); 26 Sep 2005 01:51:46 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 10790 invoked by uid 22791); 26 Sep 2005 01:51:40 -0000 Received: from nevyn.them.org (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Mon, 26 Sep 2005 01:51:40 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.52) id 1EJi9a-0005za-OW; Sun, 25 Sep 2005 21:51:38 -0400 Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 01:51:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Mark Kettenis Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Tighten and tweak ptrace argument checks Message-ID: <20050926015138.GG22284@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Mark Kettenis , gdb-patches@sourceware.org References: <20050909212825.GA9449@nevyn.them.org> <200509122147.j8CLluXQ011168@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <20050914144303.GA20354@nevyn.them.org> <200509181035.j8IAZjPV008619@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200509181035.j8IAZjPV008619@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-SW-Source: 2005-09/txt/msg00212.txt.bz2 [Eliding most of this, sorry...] On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 12:35:45PM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote: > I'll be happy to simply weed out the obsolete PTRACE_XXX defs from > config/ for the ports that I can't test. Of course that means risking > potentially breaking those ports. Thus far we have been rather > conservative about doing such things. I'd rather do it than not... > So, yes, I think it'd be good if you could still change things such > that the n32 ptrace API would be identical to the o32 and n64 APIs. > If not, I think the patch below is a low-risk way to check for the > right prototype on n32 MIPS Linux. I'm working on the API/ABI changes. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery, LLC