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

[Steve M. <ste...@li...>]

On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 02:39:47PM +0400, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
>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?

Hi Dmitry,

The old PTRACE_GETREGS request only works for 32-bit mode; it seems
the kernel folks are preferring a new ptrace interface now.

Cheers,
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Steve McIntyre                                ste...@li...
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