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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] x86: ia32_signal: remove unnecessary padding
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Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com> writes:

> From: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
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> 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

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ak@linux.intel.com


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