Messages in this thread | | | From | "Lu, Hongjiu" <> | Date | Wed, 3 Feb 2010 18:05:11 -0800 | Subject | RE: [patch] x86: ptrace and core-dump extensions for xstate |
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> > > Gdb calls cpuid during startup time to find out the actual xstate_size > > on the target machine. It has to be reliable. There is no need for > > another ptrace option. But we should document it clearly in ABI. > > As I said, I think that is an extremely poor API choice. There is no such > arcane requirement in the API now, so we do not have add one. >
That is how processor works.
H.J.
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