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From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
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On 04/12/2012 04:37 PM, H.J. Lu wrote:

> It doesn't work since x32 is a 32-bit process.  Although x32
> GDBserver can get registers of 64-bit process,  it can't handle 64-bit address

> in 64b-bit process, like setting break points.

Oh yeah...  PowerPC has PPC_PTRACE_PEEKDATA_3264/PPC_PTRACE_POKEDATA_3264
for that, but well, it's PowerPC specific.

-- 
Pedro Alves