DTrace issues?

Jan Beich jbeich at FreeBSD.org
Sat Apr 15 07:43:01 UTC 2017


Sean Chittenden <sean at chittenden.org> writes:

> On Apr 12, 2017, 22:19 -0700, Jan Beich <jbeich at FreeBSD.org>, wrote:
>> jbeich at freebsd.org (Jan Beich) writes:
>>
>> > > If so, please point me at active bugs in this area.
>> >
>> > Firefox is affected by a few more DTrace issues but those are old and
>> > have been worked around in the ports tree.
>> >
>> > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=214556 # dtrace on aarch64
>> > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1041353 # dtrace vs. ld.gold
>> > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=702179 # dtrace vs. static libs
>>
>> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1353558 # FF55 bustage
>>
>> Is there any chance FreeBSD adds compatibility with DTrace on OS X?
>
> I think you mean, "when will Apple update its DTrace to be more
> compatible with FreeBSD?" The version of DTrace that ships with macOS
> is out of date and yes, we would love it if it were more up to date in
> macOS. :( -sc

On FreeBSD "dtrace -G" causes no end of grief with various build systems.
Do you mean OS X is going to inherit it?


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