From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
To: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Glibc hackers <libc-hacker@sources.redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] s390: Remove PT_IEEE_IP ptrace calls.
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 07:58:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1209455421.7852.18.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1205136243.23606.11.camel@localhost>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-29 7:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-07 16:41 Martin Schwidefsky
2008-03-07 18:59 ` Roland McGrath
2008-03-10 8:04 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2008-04-29 7:58 ` Martin Schwidefsky [this message]
2008-04-29 21:32 ` Roland McGrath
2008-04-30 7:35 ` Martin Schwidefsky
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