PATCH: NPTL support for MIPS

Roland McGrath roland@redhat.com
Wed Mar 16 23:25:00 GMT 2005


> This is entirely within LinuxThreads.  Both libc.so and libpthread.so
> will try to access p_errno, which has to be at a common offset in this
> structure.  This "padding" is unused in libc.so, but used in
> libpthread.so, and it lives before p_errno - so when it isn't included,
> libc clobbers the wrong location in the descriptor when it tries to set
> errno.

Why is it located there?



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