On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 03:08:01PM -0700, John Baldwin wrote: > On Wednesday, October 26, 2016 05:37:08 PM John Baldwin wrote: > > Author: jhb > > Date: Wed Oct 26 17:37:08 2016 > > New Revision: 307971 > > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/307971 > > > > Log: > > Correct definition of 'struct sigcontext' on MIPS. > > > > Add missing fields ('sr' and 'mc_tls') to 'struct sigcontext'. > > > > The kernel doesn't use 'struct sigcontext' but instead uses 'ucontext_t' > > which includes 'mcontext_t' in 'struct sigframe' to build the signal > > frame. > > As a result, this change is not an ABI change but simply making > > 'struct sigcontext' correct. Note that 'struct sigcontext' is only used > > for "Traditional BSD style" signal handlers. > > > > While here, rename the 'xxx' field to '__spare__' to match 'mcontext_t'. > > > > Sponsored by: DARPA, AFRL > > We should perhaps a static assertion somewhere that > sizeof(sigset_t) + sizeof(ucontext_t) == sizeof(struct sigcontext) if > that is really true of all of our architectures. This should be mcontext_t instead of ucontext_t.
> > Alternatively, we might consider retiring 'struct sigcontext' altogether. > It's purpose has been superseded by SA_SIGINFO (which is more portable) > which has been around for quite a while now. As a first step I guess > we could try an exp-run with 'struct sigcontext' removed. (We should > have ditched this in 5.0 since we have a separate sendsig/sigreturn path > for FreeBSD 4.x already. Oh well.) I do not think that this is a practical option. I know that struct sigcontext is used by nongnu libunwind. Quick search identifies mono and go as consumers as well. _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
