Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86: ia32_signal: remove unnecessary padding | From | Andi Kleen <> | Date | Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:56:21 +0100 |
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Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com> writes:
> From: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com> > > Impact: cleanup
Actually it's not a cleanup.
> Remove unnecessary paddings, this saves 4 bytes.
This might actually break code. The code is not actually used, but only kept around because some old gdb versions used this code as a marker for detecting signals.
I don't know if they require the padding or not, but it seems somewhat risky to change a legacy marker like this.
-Andi
-- ak@linux.intel.com
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