- /* An address of (int *)1 tells ptrace to continue from where it was.
- (If GDB wanted it to start some other way, we have already written
- a new PC value to the child.) */
+ /* An address of (PTRACE_ARG3_TYPE)1 tells ptrace to continue from where
+ it was. (If GDB wanted it to start some other way, we have already
+ written a new PC value to the child.)
+
+ If this system does not support PT_STEP, a higher level function will
+ have called single_step() to transmute the step request into a
+ continue request (by setting breakpoints on all possible successor
+ instructions), so we don't have to worry about that here. */