[Ltrace-devel] displaying arguments and build vs. host fiasco

[Zach Welch]

On 11/05/2010 08:19 PM, Joe Damato wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Petr Machata <pmachata at redhat.com> wrote:
...
>> - which means that i386 and x86_64 can no longer be totally separate
>> backends, at least not the way they are now, or at least x86_64 has to
>> include i386.  I'm thinking it shouldn't be terribly hard to merge them, ppc
>> and s390 have always been like that AFAIK.
> 
> OK, I agree. I don't mind doing this work (unless some one else has
> already started). Although, I am thinking that perhaps we should do
> this in a separate branch and worry about merging this code in after
> we do a long overdue release of ltrace.
> 
> I'm in favor of releasing a new version of ltrace as soon as possible
> and I think that the changes listed above could be quite invasive. I
> have no idea if the other architectures will be affected, so perhaps
> for the release we are working toward, we can update the documentation
> and let people know that ltrace and the binary being traced need to be
> built for the same architecture.
> 
> List: what do you think?

I agree that the proposed changes should be produced as a series of
patches in a separate branch. That branch then should be fully reviewed
and tested by several developers prior to being merged. I would be happy
to help review and test said patches, once they seem fairly complete.

I also agree that a new release is due ASAP, so this work should be
planned for a future release. An entry in a BUGS file seems most apropos.

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