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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] replace struct ucontext with ucontext_t type
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Kamil Rytarowski |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] replace struct ucontext with ucontext_t type |
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Thu, 29 Jun 2017 15:10:53 +0200 |
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On 29.06.2017 15:12, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Peter Maydell <address@hidden> writes:
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>> On 28 June 2017 at 21:44, Khem Raj <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> The ucontext_t type had a tag struct ucontext until now
>>> but newer glibc will drop it so we need to adjust and use
>>> the exposed type instead
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>> If true this seems like a bug in glibc to break
>> existing working programs, and it should be fixed there...
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> I'd support that notion. However, SUSv2 documents ucontext_t, not
> struct ucontext. Using the former instead of the latter makes sense as
> a portability improvement, doesn't it?
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NetBSD ships with ucontext_t, no 'struct ucontext' available.
Technically there is 'struct __ucontext', but nobody is allowed to use
it sanely.
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