Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 May 2002 16:12:18 -0400 (EDT) | From | Pradeep Padala <> | Subject | Re: No PTRACE_READDATA for archs other than SPARC? |
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> Only Sparc implements this, that is correct. > > If other platforms added PTRACE_READDATA support, they would > also need to add some way to do a feature test for it's presence > so that GDB and other debugging code could actually make use > of it portably.
You mean, it's an undocumented feature for sparc?
If I want to add it to i386, what do I need to add so that gdb/debuggers know that the feature exists.
> The return values are set directly in the user's pt_regs.
I get it. Thanx for the info
--pradeep
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