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On 04/29/2014 10:08 PM, Andrew Pinski wrote:
> 
> restoring the values is hard since even the ptrace interface does not
> allow for that.
> 

So that begs the ultimate question, which is: given the fact that there
is *state missing* from the state vector (this is the core of the
problem), is there a way we can add that state so that gdb will be able
to save and restore it?

	-hpa