Q: OABI support for ARM EABI

Dmitry V. Levin ldv at altlinux.org
Thu Mar 20 15:15:35 UTC 2014


On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 01:59:05AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> 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 :/.

http://sourceforge.net/p/strace/code/ci/0a03dde091e828ead824d4ff2f95882264fb37f4/
- would it be OK?

> maybe save the day for dropping it when the kernel does.


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