Re: Portable syscall inspection

[Trent Waddington]

On 5/29/07, Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Also consider that some architectures pass parts of the arguments in
> registers which on yet others are passed in memory.  Sometimes padding
> arguments are needed and many more oddities.  Similar for results.
> Inescapably such a program is a perment maintenance nightmare.

Yes, I see.  This nightmare appears to be the burden of the strace
people, god bless them.  I'm looking at moving their plethora of
#ifdefs into a library so others can be spared the nightmare.

Thanks,

Trent
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