Q: OABI support for ARM EABI

Mike Frysinger vapier at gentoo.org
Thu Mar 20 05:59:05 UTC 2014


On Thu 20 Mar 2014 01:51:30 Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
> strace on ARM EABI currently implements limited OABI support.
> This feature is enabled by default, and it costs extra PTRACE_PEEKTEXT on
> every syscall.
> 
> I wonder whether OABI is used on some ARM EABI systems nowadays?
> Wouldn't it be better to disable this feature by default?

i wouldn't mind putting it behind a compile time flag, but i'm not sure about 
dropping it.  i still see OABI binaries about :/.

maybe save the day for dropping it when the kernel does.
-mike
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