[patch 4/5] ppc64: Add definitions for new PTRACE calls

Roland McGrath roland at redhat.com
Sun Sep 11 05:21:37 EST 2005


> - Add PTRACE_BRANCHSTEP. Like PTRACE_SINGLESTEP but takes an
>   exception at every branch. This might be worth putting in
>   include/linux/ptrace.h if other architectures are interested.

The other machines that define this now call it PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK (ia64, pa).
(It can also be implemented on modern x86 chips, and I'll get around to
that one of these days.)


Thanks,
Roland



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