[Ltrace-devel] mips: Feedback ltrace v0.7.0-gitf97b187

[Edgar E. Iglesias]

On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 04:13:59PM +0200, Sedat Dilek wrote:
> [ CCing Oliver (project-lead of the Freetz router project) ]
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Unfortunately, I had a case of death recently, so I was a bit quite
> and will stay a while so.

Hi Sedat,

Sorry to hear that


> 
> Today Jackie from Broadcom contacted me privately about the status of
> latest ltrace GIT on MIPS.
> 
> I have tested with MIPSEL arch against the Freetz build-system with
> these versions:
> 
> GCC_VER="4.7.2-RC-20120914"
> UCLIBC_VER="0.9.33.2"
> LTRACE_VER="0.7.0-gitf97b187"
> 
> NOTE-1:
> I have tested always with a statically linked ltrace binary.
> NOTE-2:
> With newer gcc-versions I had to set some target-CC options to
> suppress errors (treat them as warnings, see [1]).
> NOTE-3:
> Ltracing the dsld-daemon (closed source) on my router box lead
> sometimes to stalls and/or my box rebooted. This could be due to
> limited RAM as I have approx. 2MiB free.
> NOTE-4:
> Demangling support was disabled (see diff file).
> NOTE-5:
> I tested "ARCH=mipsel" (see diff file).
> 
> Please have a closer look into the attached files for more details.
> 
> A big thank you to ***Edgar*** for the great work on MIPS and
> ***Petr*** for reviving ltrace, being a good mentor and reviewer :-)!


I've seen the unexpected breakpoint error on my side aswell and will
try to debug it soon (when I get more time). I'd also like to take
alook at the binaries using the non PIC ABI for MIPS but I don't have
access to such a system at the moment.

Best regards,
Edgar