Re: Does today's gdb compile on Linux?

[Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>]

On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 06:11:47PM -0800, H . J . Lu wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 05:23:18PM -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> > "H . J . Lu" <hjl@valinux.com> writes:
> > 
> > 
> > No!!!  Use the definitions from ucontext.  Why the hell do you think I
> > changed that?  The files procfs.h and ucontext.h must be includable at
> > the same time.
> > 
> 
> The original definitions came from <asm/user.h>. They are used by
> ptrace. They are have different meanings than those from ucontext.h. 
> 
> It is too bad that the same names, gregset_t and fpregset_t, are used
> for different purposes. It is wrong to include ucontext.h in procfs.h
> to get "gregset_t" and "fpregset_t". I guess we can modify gdb to use
> struct user_fpregs_struct and struct user_regs_struct directly. On the
> other hand, it will be tricky to make gdb compile under glibc 2.0, 2.1,
> 2.2 and libc 5.

I saw this as well. I think the right thing is to use i386 configure fragment
for this, which will tell you which one of fpregset_t and elf_fpregset_t you
want to use.

Cheers,
    Jakub
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