From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: supriyak@in.ibm.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Incorrect order of last two arguments of ptrace for requests PPC_PTRACE_GETREGS, SETREGS, GETFPREGS, SETFPREGS
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 13:43:54 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061025.134354.92582918.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <453F421A.6070507@in.ibm.com>
From: supriya kannery <supriyak@in.ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 16:23:14 +0530
> If we exchange the last two arguments like,
>
> ptrace (PPC_PTRACE_GETREGS, pid, ®[0], 0);
>
> it works!
Please make sure that programs, such as gdb, aren't using the reversed
argument order. If they are, you cannot "fix" this as it will break
all such applictions.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-25 20:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-25 10:53 supriya kannery
2006-10-25 20:43 ` David Miller [this message]
2006-10-27 7:20 ` supriya kannery
2006-10-27 7:10 ` David Miller
2006-10-31 12:18 ` supriya kannery
2006-11-22 18:36 ` David Woodhouse
2006-11-22 21:35 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-12-04 21:58 ` Anton Blanchard
2007-04-30 5:42 ` Paul Mackerras
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