[PATCH] s390: Remove PT_IEEE_IP ptrace calls.

Martin Schwidefsky schwidefsky@de.ibm.com
Tue Apr 29 07:58:00 GMT 2008


On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 09:04 +0100, Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 10:58 -0800, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > If you aren't worried about any compatibility issue for s390, we surely aren't.
> > I assume you've checked with both users. ;-)
> 
> Compatibility issues for a field that does not contain the value it
> should contain? It can't get more broken than it is today, all the major
> distribution versions have a kernel that null the field. So I am not
> worried about compatibility. In fact I am quite happy that we can remove
> this nasty ptrace hack in fesetenv/fegetenv. It even showed up on some
> benchmarks.

Made up you mind? I would like to see this patch in glibc accepted first
before we go ahead and remove the kernel code for it as well.

-- 
blue skies,
  Martin.

"Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin.




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