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Re: Reading target registers

From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
To: "Bloch, Jack" <jack dot bloch at siemens dot com>
Cc: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 15:49:47 -0400
Subject: Re: Reading target registers
References: <2DA8F872430BE8469BF0F403A6103F9205CFC9@stca20aa.bocc.icn.siemens.com>

On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 12:44:05PM -0700, Bloch, Jack wrote:
> While this is not a direct GDB question, I'm hoping someone can answer me. I
> have an application which uses the ptrace interface to attach to a target
> process and read the target registers (I'm specifically interested in the
> EIP). It will run on a SuSE 2.6 Kernel x86 based machine. My code is below.

You can only use PTRACE_GETREGS when the process is stopped; that may
be the problem.  After attaching be sure to wait().  Otherwise, try
stracing to see what's going on.


-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC

References:
- Reading target registers
  - From: Bloch, Jack

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