[PATCH 1/2] stdlib/tst-setcontext.c: Check for clobbering of signal stack.

Siddhesh Poyarekar siddhesh@redhat.com
Mon Mar 3 12:32:00 GMT 2014


On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 02:58:00PM +0800, Will Newton wrote:
> On aarch64 calling swapcontext clobbers the state of the signal
> stack (BZ #16629). Check that the address and size of the signal
> stack before and after the call to swapcontext remains the same.

The description in bz #16629 seems to indicate that this test would
fail on aarch64.  If that is correct, this test update should
accompany a fix to the problem so that it doesn't fail on mainline.

> 
> ChangeLog:
> 
> 2014-02-25  Will Newton  <will.newton@linaro.org>
> 

Add relevant BZ # here.  The date above is wrong too, but I assume
you'll fix it up later.

> 	* stdlib/tst-setcontext.c: Include signal.h.
> 	(main): Check that the signal stack before and
> 	after swapcontext is the same.

Siddhesh
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