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Re: Fix mcontext_t sigcontext namespace (bug 21457)
On Tue, 27 Jun 2017, Florian Weimer wrote:
> On 06/27/2017 05:27 PM, Szabolcs Nagy wrote:
>
> >> For some previous patches in this series, changing stack_t and ucontext_t,
> >> Florian checked there were no affected mangled names in Fedora, as
> >> evidence for such problems being rare. Such a check might be worthwhile
> >> here (remembering that what is being looked for is architecture-specific,
> >> but on x86_64 / x86 the mangled name is already mcontext_t and would not
> >> change because there aren't namespace issues there).
> >>
> >
> > Florian, if you can check, then please do.
>
> What's the old mangled name I would have to look for? sigcontext?
On x86_64 and x86, it's mcontext_t (and won't change). On AArch64, it's
sigcontext.
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