[Crash-utility] crash version 4.0-4.7 is available

[Dave Anderson]

Bernhard Walle wrote:
> * Dave Anderson <anderson at 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 at 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


[ 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