cancel: Re: [patch 5/9]#2 Move siginfo_fixup linux-nat -> inf-ptrace

[Jan Kratochvil <jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com>]

Hi,

cancelling now this patch as being just a pre-requisite for:
	cancel: Re: [rfc 7/9]#2 Associate siginfo_t with any signal
	http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2010-08/msg00545.html


On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:44:17 +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote:
>   but my gut feeling is that the siginfo
>   processing is (at least for now) a Linux-specific feature and
>   therefore belongs in linux-nat.c.

I see now that the siginfo corruption is more a bug in linux-nat.c only than
a general GDB bug.


> * The memcpy that's being done requires the size of "struct siginfo"
>   to be known.  I'm not sure all platforms that use ptrace(2) actually
>   have a "struct siginfo" (OpenBSD, HP-UX 10.20 and Linux have it).
>   I'm not sure <signal.h> is enough to actually make the definition
>   available (have some doubts here for HP-UX 10.20).

There was that HAVE_SIGINFO_T for it but it is offtopic now.


Thanks,
Jan