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Re: [patch] x86-64 ptrace() ABI change sync
Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> writes:
> On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 03:13:22PM +0200, Michal Ludvig wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> I've committed this obvious patch which synces gdb with changed glibc to
>> both mainline and 5.2-branch.
>>
>> Michal Ludvig
>>
>> Index: ChangeLog
>> * x86-64-linux-nat.c (child_xfer_memory): x86-64 ptrace() ABI
>> change sync
>
> Is this needed for gdbserver? I'd guess not, since I assumed that
> ptrace() behaved according to its man page. So probably gdbserver is
> already correct.
If you followed the man page, everything should be fine. The problem
was that I didn't follow the man page in implemting ptrace in glibc
for x86-64 - and fixing this meant changing the interface... ptrace
is now using the same interface for x86-64 as for x86,
Andreas
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