From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29735 invoked by alias); 5 Nov 2008 18:57:08 -0000 Received: (qmail 29673 invoked by uid 22791); 5 Nov 2008 18:57:07 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.codesourcery.com (HELO mail.codesourcery.com) (65.74.133.4) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 05 Nov 2008 18:56:31 +0000 Received: (qmail 11440 invoked from network); 5 Nov 2008 18:56:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO orlando.local) (pedro@127.0.0.2) by mail.codesourcery.com with ESMTPA; 5 Nov 2008 18:56:29 -0000 From: Pedro Alves To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, Eli Zaretskii Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] 'catch syscall' feature -- =?utf-8?q?=09Architecture-independent=09part?= Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2008 18:57:00 -0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 Cc: bauerman@br.ibm.com, sergiodj@linux.vnet.ibm.com References: <1225773079.24532.52.camel@miki> <200811051228.29626.pedro@codesourcery.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200811051856.27087.pedro@codesourcery.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-11/txt/msg00084.txt.bz2 On ednesday 05 November 2008 18:37:26, Eli Zaretskii wrote > > Yes, but that falls into api-tracing land, which is a bit different > > from syscall tracing. >=20 > It's different in implementation details, but very similar in essence, > as far as Joe Random Hacker is concerned. =C2=A0From the Windows > programmer's POV, Windows APIs _are_ syscalls. Sorry, here's where I think I'm missing something. What's wrong with "break ReadFile" ? What would you gain with "catch syscall ReadFile", and how would that be different from "b foo_function_in_a_random_so" on non-Windows systems? --=20 Pedro Alves