Proposed change to ppc32 ucontext_t

[Ulrich Drepper]

Paul Mackerras wrote:
> In other
> words, all 2.5/2.6 releases except for 2.6.0-test5 are compatible with
> the patch I sent today.

OK, then I'm all for the patch.

> The situation is that ucontext_t on ppc32 has increased in size

Then symbol versioning is needed.


> Do we need to make sure
> that programs compiled against older glibc releases continue to get
> the non-functional stubs?

Object files are not guaranteed to be compatible.  Executables and DSOs
are handled by symbol versioning.  So you need to extend your patch to
provide compatible definitions.

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