i386 has MMX
PowerPC has AltiVec
Sparc has VIS
Alpha has CIS

Many/most of these use alternate register sets.  Not only does there need to
kernel support for saving/restoiring these on process context switches, we
all need to dump these in core files but make them accessible for debugging.

However it seems that ptrace(2) and /proc don't have any mechanism for
reading these extention registers.  It seems wrong to includes GETFPREGS since
that would be an interface change.

Ideas?
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