Re: Fedora utrace changes break PPC GDB

["Ulrich Weigand" <uweigand@de.ibm.com>]

Hi Roland,

> Hi, Ulrich.  Thanks for bringing these problems to my attention.
> I have fixed them in "upstream" utrace (http://redhat.com/~roland/utrace/)
> and those changes will appear in Fedora update kernels before too long.
> I've also added regression tests for them to the ptrace-tests suite
> (http://sourceware.org/systemtap/wiki/utrace/tests).

Thanks for the quick fix!  I'll verify that it works for me as soon as
the patches are included in Fedora.  (I'm assuming it is too late for
them to get into Fedora 8 at this point, right?)

> These are not gdb issues at all, just Fedora kernel bugs.  (Any
> regression in ptrace ABI behavior of this sort from vanilla Linux kernels
> is an unintended bug.)  The normal method is to file Fedora kernel bugs
> via https://bugzilla.redhat.com/.  Since you know it's an issue with the
> utrace code, the feedback is always appreciated if you want post to the
> utrace-devel@redhat.com mailing list about any such issue.

Thanks, I'll do that if I find further utrace-related problems.

Bye,
Ulrich

-- 
  Dr. Ulrich Weigand
  GNU Toolchain for Linux on System z and Cell BE
  Ulrich.Weigand@de.ibm.com