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From:	Harald Krapfenbauer <krapfenbauer@ict.tuwien.ac.at>
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Hello,

If I write memory (maybe with instructions) of a traced application with
the ptrace() call, are the caches invalidated automatically, i.e. can I
assume that the processor uses the newly written values after continuing?

Thanks + best regards,
Harald