Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add AArch64 support to strace

[Dmitry V. L. <ld...@al...>]

On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 05:38:22PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote:
[...]
> * syscall.c: Support AArch64. Uses new PTRACE_GETREGSET ptrace request
> instead of PTRACE_GETREGS, so also include sys/uio.h and elf.h for needed
> definitions.

Could you please enlighten us what was the rationale behind this decision?
Is there any registers you need that couldn't be easily obtained using
PTRACE_GETREGS?


-- 
ldv