ltrace for ppc

Hi,

ltrace is a cool little program for tracing library calls. I ported it to ppclinux a while ago but the ltrace maintainer seems to have ignored my patch.

For anyone interested the patch can be found at:

http://linuxcare.com.au/anton/patches/ltrace_ppc_patch

It should apply cleanly to the latest source (I got mine from the debian archive).

Anton

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You did? Wow! I spent ages trying to do this...

Oh, looking at your patch I remember what happened. It's a bloody miracle that ltrace works at all on any architecture; the PLT tricks that the PPC plays are not at all uncommon, as I recall. I got derailed trying to make it insert breakpoints at the proper time.

Thanks for the patch; I'll probably keep bugging the author about this...

Dan

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If you're interested in ltrace, you may want to take a look at the Linux trace toolkit (http://www.opersys.com/LTT). It runs fine on PPC too.

Best regards,

Karim

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