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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


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