Re: asm-ia64/fpu.h portability improvement

[Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn_helgaas@hp.com>]

On Thursday 27 March 2003 6:11 pm, David Mosberger wrote:
> The patch below makes the declaration of "struct ia64_fpreg" portable
> accross compilers.  Bjorn, I think it would be good to make the same
> change in 2.4.xx.
> 
> Even though it's a change to a kernel header file, this patch is
> intended to fix a bug in glibc: without this patch, using a compiler
> other than gcc will lead to a sigcontext/ucontext type which isn't
> properly aligned.

I applied this for 2.4 (so it will be in the 2.4.21 ia64 patch).