[Ltrace-devel] [patch] Will let versions of ltrace that need "_start" worked with stripped target program.

PAUL GILLIAM pgilliam at us.ibm.com
Mon Apr 24 19:55:04 UTC 2006


Ian,

I like PLT_REINITALISATION_BP.  Very descriptive and clear.

I will make that change and commit it.

-=# Paul #=-



On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 05:05 +1000, Ian Wienand wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 11:44:49AM -0700, PAUL GILLIAM wrote:
> > This patch *also* makes all the "_start" stuff conditional on
> > E_ENTRY_NAME.  If an architecture doesn't need this stuff, then it
> > doesn't define E_ENTRY_NAME in it's "arch.h" file (which is copied
> > to sysdep/linux-gnu/sysdep.h)
> 
> I like the cleanup, the PLTs_INIT_BY_HERE was always a bit confusing.
> But I worry that E_ENTRY_NAME is even less descripitive, because it
> gives no clue on what is happening.
> 
> Can we do something like change it to a protective define of
> PLT_REQUIRES_REINITALISATION, or call it PLT_REINITALISATION_BP or
> something?
> 
> -i




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