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From: Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>
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> Is that a worthwhile thing to have?  Well, I guess so.  One of things
> I'm working on, is a portable "gdb_ptrace.h".  We could simply add a
> macro there that takes care of the conversion.

Being able to trace ptrace calls, yes, definitly.  As for a macro, the 
user should see what they get -> s/ptrace/call_ptrace/.

Andrew