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Re: [PATCH 4/4] 'catch syscall' feature -- Build system, documentation and testcase
- From: Sérgio Durigan Júnior <sergiodj at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>
- To: tromey at redhat dot com
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2008 02:02:04 -0200
- Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] 'catch syscall' feature -- Build system, documentation and testcase
- References: <1225773088.24532.56.camel@miki> <m3hc6npi38.fsf@fleche.redhat.com>
Hi Tom,
On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 09:32 -0700, Tom Tromey wrote:
> >>>>> "Sérgio" == Sérgio Durigan Júnior <sergiodj@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
>
> Sérgio> This last part modifies the build system (in order to
> Sérgio> implement the GDB's datadir), adds the documentation and the
> Sérgio> testcase for the new feature.
>
> Nice.
>
> Sérgio> +xml-syscall-copy:
> Sérgio> + list='$(XML_SYSCALLS_FILES)' ; \
> Sérgio> + for file in $$list ; do \
>
> Two nits here.
>
> First, if you build with builddir!=srcdir, you need to mkdir
> XML_SYSCALLS_DIR here.
>
> Second, I think it would be nice to detect the case where
> builddir==srcdir and not copy in that case.
You're right. Thanks, I'll fix it.
> Sérgio> +xml-syscall-install:
> Sérgio> + $(SHELL) $(srcdir)/../mkinstalldirs \
> Sérgio> + $(DESTDIR)$(GDB_DATADIR_PATH)/$(XML_SYSCALLS_DIR) ; \
>
> Using DESTDIR is nice attention to detail :-)
Haha, I'm learning :-)
> Sérgio> +# Also, the "install" target installs the syscalls' XML files in the system.
> Sérgio> +install: all install-only xml-syscall-install
>
> I think install-only should depend on xml-syscall-install.
> I believe the intent here is that "make install-only" will install
> everything without rebuilding.
Ok, consider it done.
> Sérgio> +AC_ARG_WITH(gdb-datadir,
> Sérgio> +[ --with-gdb-datadir=path Look for global separate data files in this path [DATADIR/gdb]],
>
> It is preferable, IMO, to use AS_HELP_STRING here.
> There are some examples of this in gdb's configure.ac.
OK, no problem by me. But I did a cut & paste from the other parts
(specifically the DEBUGDIR part), which does exactly this :-). Just to
let you know.
> Sérgio> +AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS(doc testsuite syscalls)
>
> You don't want this. There is no syscalls directory, and even if
> there was, I would argue that it should not have its own configure
> script.
Sure, this was totally my fault. I'm sorry.
> Sérgio> +@item syscall
> Sérgio> +@itemx syscall @var{syscall name}
> Sérgio> +@cindex break on call to/return from a system call
> Sérgio> +A call to/return from a @code{syscall} -- similar to the @code{strace}
> Sérgio> +utility.
>
> This needs a minor update now that "catch syscall" can take multiple
> arguments.
>
> I didn't read the implementation patch in detail... if it parses
> numeric syscalls, then that should be mentioned here.
Yeah, thanks. Eli already pointed this error too. Thanks.
>
> Finally, instead of "call to/return from", how about "call to or
> return from"? This is more grammatical and not much longer :-)
>
> Tom
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Sérgio Durigan Júnior
Linux on Power Toolchain - Software Engineer
Linux Technology Center - LTC
IBM Brazil