Subject: Re: gdb-4.15 for 1.1 (PT_READ_U, PT_WRITE_U)
To: None <jgb@gsyc.inf.uc3m.es, port-i386@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Charles M. Hannum <mycroft@NetBSD.ORG>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/30/1996 20:30:16 
   PS: Should PT_READ_U  and  PT_WRITE_U be in <sys/ptrace.h>? Could somebody
   explain why or why not?

PT_READ_U and PT_WRITE_U are outdated, slow interfaces used to read
and write a process's registers from a debugger.  Implementing them
is annoying and hardly worthwhile.  Our GDB was changed some time ago
to use PT_READREGS and PT_WRITEREGS, which are simpler, faster to
use, and don't break every time the kernel is changed.