[COMMITTED PATCH] Consolidate not-cancel.h files.
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com
Wed May 14 21:06:00 GMT 2014
On Wed, 14 May 2014, Roland McGrath wrote:
> There are in fact only two versions of not-cancel.h actually in use: the
> sysdeps/generic one for non-Linux, and the NPTL one living in
> nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/. The diff looks nontrivial only because
> moving nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/not-cancel.h verbatim to
> sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ clobbered the unused file that was there before.
I don't believe that file was unused; plenty of architectures didn't have
their own not-cancel.h files and so used the sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ one.
It may well be that the differences were *unnecessary*; I haven't thought
what what this file should optimally look like.
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com
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