glibc-2.1.3, asm/elf.h and PPC kernels with AltiVec support

[Franz Sirl]

At 14:20 04.02.00 , Franz Sirl wrote:
>At 13:44 04.02.00 , Mark Kettenis wrote:
>>    Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2000 11:46:14 +0100
>>    From: Franz Sirl <Franz.Sirl-kernel@lauterbach.com>
>>
>>    Well, including them in sys/procfs.h is fine for me, if that's the
>>    way to go. Probably the ARM people should revert their recently
>>    introduced sys/elf.h as well? At least that's what I used as a
>>    template :-) (I only look at x86 stuff as a last resort, other
>>    platforms are usually much cleaner).
>>
>>Well, it's just that I've been hacking on GDB (on Linux/i386) and
>>noticed the almost complete sense of logic in the distribution of
>>symbols over the specific header files.  My current view is that GDB
>>only needs <sys/user.h> (for `struct user' that is used to get debugging
>>information on the process via `ptrace' and for a.out core-dumps)
>>which pretty much every tradition UNIX system has, and <sys/procfs.h>
>>(for various structures that are used in ELF core-dumps) that is
>>inspired on SVR4.  Since there doesn't seem to be the need for a
>>seperate <sys/elf.h>, I don't think it should be added.
>
>Ok, I'll send a new patch then.

Here it is.

Franz.


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