Re: libc6_2.0.106-0.1_i386.deb is released

[tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)]

Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com> writes:

> I think Thomas objects to the LDT stuff because it's machine-specific hairy
> (and crufty old code in mach), and I sympathize with his conservatism.  But
> truly sufficient pthreads support requires supporting the stackaddr and
> stacksize pthread attributes, and then you cannot make universal
> assumptions about stack layout.  It's just the way it is.

You can still support stackaddr, because you can make restrictions on
what alignment is required. 

But you can't do stacksize, tis true.  

Thomas