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Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 10:47:00 -0000
From: Markus Deuling <deuling@de.ibm.com>
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Hi,

its not clear to me what the difference is between infptrace.c and inf-ptrace.[ch].

I think infptrace.c is the older one. Is it necessary to have both? Shouldn't one interface
to ptrace be sufficient?

A grep gives 25 configs using infptrace and 46 using inf-ptrace.


Regards,
Markus

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Markus Deuling
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