Minutes of 8/4/05 meeting

[Roland McGrath]

> What about porting djprobes to other architectures?  There certainly
> could be issues -- e.g., CPU rendezvous on ppc64 is rather hit-or-miss.
> The consensus was to make sure djprobes is mature on i386 before
> porting it to other architectures.

The complexities of inserting jumps are highly architecture-specific.
x86/x86-64 are unusually complicated because of their variable-sized
instructions.  Pursuit of solutions for each architecture is largely
independent (though several RISCs might be quite similar), so it ought to
proceed in parallel by people expert in each architecture.


Thanks,
Roland