struct siginfo vs. siginfo_t

Carlos O'Donell carlos@systemhalted.org
Thu Mar 15 17:30:00 GMT 2012


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.



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