Subject: Re: gdb on m68k
To: None <downsj@CSOS.ORST.EDU>
From: Charles M. Hannum <mycroft@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
List: port-m68k
Date: 09/14/1994 23:42:13 
   >I think that ptrace() was overhauled for poltical reasons beyond
   >our control.

   i think the timing could have been better, to be frank. having gdb
   fail while you're working on C library-level code is not helpful.

We did not have a reasonable choice in the matter.