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Re: struct siginfo vs. siginfo_t
- From: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at systemhalted dot org>
- To: Nix <nix at esperi dot org dot uk>
- Cc: Thomas Schwinge <thomas at codesourcery dot com>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 13:30:22 -0400
- Subject: Re: struct siginfo vs. siginfo_t
- References: <20120226181752.1175.qmail@sourceware.org><87zkbhkipp.fsf@schwinge.name><87r4wt4xmp.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix>
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk> wrote:
> On 15 Mar 2012, Thomas Schwinge said:
>
>> ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?I wonder -- if GCC
>> breaks, how much software out in the wild is going to break once this
>> glibc change ripples through?
>
> A bit of quick grepping through a biggish heap of source trees
> (including KDE 3 and 4 and GNOME 2, but not GNOME 3) suggests only GDB
> and strace (on Tile only, so perhaps irrelevant) are likely to be broken
> by this.
Nix,
Thanks for checking!
Would you like to be our ambassador and give the gdb lists a heads up
about this issue?
I see that Chris is already going to bring this up with strace.
Cheers,
Carlos.