Bernhard Walle wrote:
* Dave Anderson <anderson(a)redhat.com> [2007-09-25 21:58]:
>- Incorporation of Luc Chouinard's SIAL interpreter (Simple Image
> Access Language) as a crash extension module. When loaded with
> the "extend" command, the sial.so module provides three commands,
> "load" to load a SIAL script, "unload" to unload it, and
"edit",
> which unloads the script, brings up an $EDITOR-based edit session
> of the script, and then loads it again. Also, when the sial.so
> module is loaded, it will automatically load any SIAL scripts
> found in the /usr/share/sial/crash or $HOME/.sial directories.
> Therefore, by putting "extend <path-to>/sial.so" in either
> ./.crashrc or $HOME/.crashrc, all desired SIAL scripts may be
> loaded on a particular machine in a hands-off manner. For details,
> consult the README and README.sial files in the extensions/libsial
> subdirectory. (lucchouina(a)yahoo.com)
This extension does not build on IA64 although it should. Patch:
---
extensions/sial.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/extensions/sial.c
+++ b/extensions/sial.c
@@ -808,7 +808,7 @@ _init() /* Register the command set. */
#ifdef i386
#define SIAL_ABI ABI_INTEL_X86
#else
-#ifdef ia64
+#ifdef __ia64
#define SIAL_ABI ABI_INTEL_IA
#else
#ifdef __x86_64__
Hmmm, I wonder about this part, earlier in sial.c on line 489?
#ifdef ia64
{"ia64", "1"},
{"__ia64", "1"},
{"__ia64__", "1"},
{"__LP64__", "1"},
{"_LONGLONG", "1"},
{"__LONG_MAX__", "9223372036854775807L"},
#endif
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http://people.redhat.com/anderson/crash_sources_lines/extensions/sial.c ]
BTW, it was only tested on x86 and x86_64.
Any results on or s390/s390x? And is this even
supposed to support ppc64?
Thanks,
Dave