Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 19 Apr 2004 13:55:03 -0400 | From | Joe Korty <> | Subject | Re: siginfo & 32 bits compat, what is the story ? |
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On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 05:35:55PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > So I've been playing around the siginfo copy code for 32 bits > processes on ppc64 and found some interesting stuffs that I don't > know how to fix at this point. > > I looked at x86-64, and they always copy/convert those 3 fields, > never copy the rest of the siginfo. I looked at s390 and they do > the opposite: just copy the rest of the structure...
I believe the x86_64 method is correct.
It might be worth moving this compatibility code to a common place where all architectures could reference it.
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