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Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] Add an optional "alias" attribute to syscall entries.
On 11/09/2018 08:18 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
>> Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2018 12:04:31 -0800
>>
>> diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
>> index ff9b192a38..ff225f361e 100644
>> --- a/gdb/NEWS
>> +++ b/gdb/NEWS
>> @@ -38,6 +38,11 @@
>> requires the use of a keyword. Selecting a frame by level is
>> unchanged. The MI comment "-stack-select-frame" is unchanged.
>>
>> +* System call catchpoints now support system call aliases. This is
>> + used with the FreeBSD system call list so that system call
>> + catchpoints will also trigger for legacy system call numbers used by
>> + older FreeBSD binaries.
>
> IMO, this is very abstract and too vague to be useful. Since we won't
> have anything more detailed in the manual, would it be possible to
> make this description more concrete? E.g., how about using some of
> the text and examples you used in your description of the issue:
Should we, have something in the manual?
Thanks,
Pedro Alves