Some of the system call arguments have useful information; they're not just pointing to a memory address.
Some are necessary in order to determine what syscall was performed. For IPC syscalls, a0 indicates which of the IPC calls was executed.
-debbie
tinytim@us.ltcfwd.linux.ibm.com

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System call arguments are pretty useless unless you're in a process where the
memory addresses are still valid (like a testcase).  Would it be useful to
put an option in at a later date that allows you to dump arguments as human
readable?

-tim

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