Re: Incorrect order of last two arguments of ptrace for requestsPPC_PTRACE_GETREGS, SETREGS, GETFPREGS, SETFPREGS

[Paul Mackerras]

Anton Blanchard writes:

> I looked at this a while ago and my decision at the time was to keep the
> old implementation around for a while and create two new ones that match
> the x86 numbering:
> 
> #define PTRACE_GETREGS            12
> #define PTRACE_SETREGS            13
> #define PTRACE_GETFPREGS          14
> #define PTRACE_SETFPREGS          15
> 
> I hate gratuitous differences, each ptrace app ends up with a sea of
> ifdefs.
> 
> Also I think it would be worth changing getregs/setregs to grab the
> entire pt_regs structure. Otherwise most ops (gdb, strace etc) will just
> have to make multiple ptrace calls to get the nia etc.

Did you do a patch to do that?

Paul.
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