From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22997 invoked by alias); 29 Apr 2008 07:58:12 -0000 Received: (qmail 22980 invoked by uid 22791); 29 Apr 2008 07:58:11 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mtagate4.de.ibm.com (HELO mtagate4.de.ibm.com) (195.212.29.153) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Tue, 29 Apr 2008 07:57:49 +0000 Received: from d12nrmr1607.megacenter.de.ibm.com (d12nrmr1607.megacenter.de.ibm.com [9.149.167.49]) by mtagate4.de.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m3T7viDH065898 for ; Tue, 29 Apr 2008 07:57:44 GMT Received: from d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com (d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com [9.149.165.228]) by d12nrmr1607.megacenter.de.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v8.7) with ESMTP id m3T7viHZ3354866 for ; Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:57:44 +0200 Received: from d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id m3T7vhdl029781 for ; Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:57:44 +0200 Received: from [9.152.198.54] (dyn-9-152-198-54.boeblingen.de.ibm.com [9.152.198.54]) by d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id m3T7vhCE029776; Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:57:43 +0200 Subject: Re: [PATCH] s390: Remove PT_IEEE_IP ptrace calls. From: Martin Schwidefsky Reply-To: schwidefsky@de.ibm.com To: Roland McGrath Cc: Glibc hackers In-Reply-To: <1205136243.23606.11.camel@localhost> References: <1204908023.21438.8.camel@localhost> <20080307185837.523B827010F@magilla.localdomain> <1205136243.23606.11.camel@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 07:58:00 -0000 Message-Id: <1209455421.7852.18.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact libc-hacker-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: libc-hacker-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-04/txt/msg00004.txt.bz2 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.