I agree that we should't deviate from the subject too much. My reply was intended to fix the generally incorrect comment regarding the size of the word read by

I agree that we should't deviate from the subject too much. My reply was intended to fix the generally incorrect comment regarding the size of the word read by ptrace. In ptrace: > The size of a "word" is determined by the OS variant (e.g., for 32-bit Linux it's 32 bits, etc.). Taken from http://linux.die.net/man/2/ptrace http://linux.die.net/man/2/ptrace