[PATCH] Fix IPC for PPC (maybe needed for mips and sparc64 too?)
Andreas Jaeger
aj@suse.de
Mon Sep 18 00:35:00 GMT 2000
>>>>> Franz Sirl writes:
> Hi,
> I finally found the reason why some X apps (namely gdm and the gtk+ tree
> example) had problems on Linux/PPC, glibc was treating PPC as a 16bit
> uid_t/gid_t/etc. platform, but this was never the case on PPC, we had 32bit
> from the beginning. The attached patch fixes it. Mips and sparc64 may need
> similar fixes.
> Franz.
> * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/kernel-features.h: Always define
> __ASSUME_32BITUIDS for __powerpc__.
> * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/ipc_priv.h: New file.
> * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/Dist: Add ipc_priv.h.
Thanks - I'll add similar fixes for MIPS now.
Andreas
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