Re: Incorrect order of last two arguments of ptrace for requestsPPC_PTRACE_GETREGS, SETREGS, GETFPREGS, SETFPREGS

[David Miller]

From: supriya kannery <supriyak@xxxxxxxxxx>
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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