In article <20121014191032.gc7...@britannica.bec.de>, Joerg Sonnenberger <jo...@britannica.bec.de> wrote: >On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 06:57:58PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote: >> In article <20121014184816.ga7...@britannica.bec.de>, >> Joerg Sonnenberger <jo...@britannica.bec.de> wrote: >> > >> >This is wrong in multiple ways: >> >(1) Why do we care about FreeBSD compatibility? The existing code is >> >pretty much useless and should just die already. There is no support for >> >anything modernish anyway. >> >> Because we want to share implementations of 3rd party programs. > >Doesn't sound like a good reason to repeat cruft and more importantly, >to extend the list of hard-coded sysctl values. All new code should use >sysctl by name. > >> >(3) The information is already available via libpthread and AT_STACKBASE >> >when processing the aux vector directly. >> >> Is there a way to get information from AUXV after ld.so is done, from libc? >> I know about the stack functions in libpthread, but what happens if you >> are not threaded? > >_dlauxinfo(). > >> >> >As such, I ask for reverting this. >> >> I don't mind. I was just doing some tests with boehm-gc. It would be nice >> if there was a way to get to the stack base and size portably. > >We could provide the stack-related attributes in libc itself for >non-threaded applications, but I am not sure how useful that is. >boehm-gc pretty much has to deal with multi-threaded code anyway.
Fine, removed. christos
