lin-lwp.c and UltraSPARC

Daniel Jacobowitz drow@mvista.com
Sat Nov 1 00:47:00 GMT 2003


On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 04:31:51PM -0700, Kevin Buettner wrote:
> On Oct 31,  9:38pm, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> 
> > I'm also thinking about replacing the PTRACE_PEEKUSER with a
> > PTRACE_PEEKDATA since the latter should be implemented on all
> > architectures.  In that case the call would probably fail the same way
> > on all architectures (assuming that nothing is mapped at address 0 on
> > all those architectures).
> 
> This sounds like a good idea.

Yes, I agree.  Interesting, this explains a number of pending Debian
bug reports... you could also PEEKDATA at an address that we expect to
be mapped.  $sp might work.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer



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