linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Add linux/elfcore-compat.h

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Message-Id: <20070807132850.a7e81f97.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Tue, 7 Aug 2007 13:28:50 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add linux/elfcore-compat.h

On Fri,  3 Aug 2007 16:21:21 -0700 (PDT)
Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com> wrote:

> This adds the linux/elfcore-compat.h header file, which is the
> CONFIG_COMPAT analog of the linux/elfcore.h header.  Each arch
> that needs to fake out fs/binfmt_elf.c for its compat code can
> use this header to replace the hand-copied definitions of the
> compat variants of struct elf_prstatus et al.  Only the pr_reg
> field varies by arch, so asm/{compat,elf}.h must define
> compat_elf_gregset_t before linux/elfcore-compat.h can be used.
> 

Should ia64 be using this too?
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