linux-kernel - Re: X86 fpu registers in a signal handler's ucontext

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Date:	Thu, 2 May 2013 09:06:46 +0200
From:	richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com>
To:	"Warlich, Christof" <christof.warlich@...mens.com>
Cc:	Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@...uu.se>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: X86 fpu registers in a signal handler's ucontext

On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 7:42 AM, Warlich, Christof
<christof.warlich@...mens.com> wrote:
> Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@...uu.se> writes:
>> You're looking at the wrong header: glibc-2.17/sysdeps/i386/sys/ucontext.h is legacy SVR4.
>> Instead look at glibc-2.17/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/sys/ucontext.h.
>>
>> (If the old one got installed on your system then something there is seriously wrong.)
>
> Oh-oh: It looks like my system was simply too old: Initially, I was looking at Ubuntu 11.10
> with an eglibc-2.13, and a double-check with a newly downloaded glibc-2.17 lead me to the
> wrong file.

Are you telling us that Ubuntu shipped the wrong header file?

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Thanks,
//richard
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