linux-kernel - Re: Incorrect order of last two arguments of ptrace for requests PPC_PTRACE

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Message-Id: <20061025.134354.92582918.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 25 Oct 2006 13:43:54 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	supriyak@...ibm.com
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Incorrect order of last two arguments of ptrace for requests
 PPC_PTRACE_GETREGS, SETREGS, GETFPREGS, SETFPREGS

From: supriya kannery <supriyak@...ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 16:23:14 +0530

> If we exchange the last two arguments like,
> 
>  ptrace (PPC_PTRACE_GETREGS, pid, &reg[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.
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