Re: [Valgrind-developers] [valgrind] Linux ppc32: map a few more syscalls

[Mark W. <ma...@kl...>]

Hi,

On Mon, Dec 15, 2025 at 08:51:52PM +0000, Sertonix wrote:
> On Mon Dec 15, 2025 at 9:37 PM CET, Paul Floyd via Valgrind-developers wrote:
> > Can you tell us a bit more about this patch?
> 
> While porting some software to ppc I used valgrind a lot and after some
> time patched valgrind to be able to handle some syscalls which were
> missing for seemingly no reason.
> 
> > Why is it needed, does it need any regression tests?
> 
> Without this valgrind complains about some unknown syscalls and is not
> able to properly analyze these on linux ppc32. I don't think it needs
> tests and I don't think I would be able add tests since the test suite
> is broken on musl libc (which I use).

It is unfortunate we don't have a dedicated ppc32 tester.  But I agree
these look fine. The exact same syscalls are wrapped the exact same
way on ppc64. They were probably just forgotten for ppc32.

Applied,

Mark