[PATCH] Add PowerPC specific ptrace constants

Dmitry V. Levin ldv at altlinux.org
Wed Sep 9 11:33:27 UTC 2015


Hi,

On Wed, Sep 09, 2015 at 04:28:54PM +1000, Anton Blanchard wrote:
> Hi Dmitry,
> 
> > Should other PPC_PTRACE_* constants be added along with these?
> 
> The PPC_PTRACE_*_3264 calls were used when bootstrapping 64bit years
> ago, I doubt they are used anywhere these days.
> 
> We could add them for completeness if you want.

I'd rather have them added for completeness if you don't mind.

On Wed, Sep 09, 2015 at 06:29:09PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-09-09 at 16:28 +1000, Anton Blanchard wrote:
> > Hi Dmitry,
> > 
> > > Should other PPC_PTRACE_* constants be added along with these?
> > 
> > The PPC_PTRACE_*_3264 calls were used when bootstrapping 64bit years
> > ago, I doubt they are used anywhere these days.
> > 
> > We could add them for completeness if you want.
> 
> If we think they're not used then I'd rather you didn't add them.
> 
> That way if we ever get around to deprecating them and eventually remove them,
> we'll have one less place to update.

Feel free deprecating them, this is not an issue for strace,
it won't use these constants unless they are defined.


-- 
ldv
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