Bug#157374: Review fix for hppa - .dpatch provided - Tested / ABI breakage.
At Wed, 28 Aug 2002 13:32:08 -0400,
Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> > Thanks for the wait, I needed to figure out how much
> > if any breakage would result from this change. Seems
> > there isn't that much use of mcontext without having
> > implemented set/get/make/swap/context() for hppa.
> >
>
> As an addendum, nothing that wasn't _already_ broken
> could _become_ broken since the kernel has always been
> passing back a sigcontext for mcontext.
>
> As a closing note, i386 keeps the definitions separate
> between kernel and userspace, trying hard to keep both
> binary compatible. While ia64 just gaveup and realized
> that typdef'ing mcontext to sigcontext and using a
> single structure was less maintenance :)
Thanks for your patch. I added your patch into debian glibc.
BTW, I think it's worth sending to the upstream.
Regards,
-- gotom
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