From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Sat, 26 Oct 2002 22:07:57 +0200 (CEST) Received: from crack.them.org ([65.125.64.184]:18181 "EHLO crack.them.org") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 26 Oct 2002 22:07:57 +0200 Received: from nevyn.them.org ([66.93.61.169] ident=mail) by crack.them.org with asmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 185Y9R-0004vy-00; Sat, 26 Oct 2002 16:07:22 -0500 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 185XE5-0004A7-00; Sat, 26 Oct 2002 16:08:05 -0400 Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 16:08:05 -0400 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: "Zajerko-McKee, Nick" Cc: "'linux-mips@linux-mips.org'" Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <20021026200804.GA15684@nevyn.them.org> References: <37A3C2F21006D611995100B0D0F9B73CBFE312@tnint11.telogy.design.ti.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <37A3C2F21006D611995100B0D0F9B73CBFE312@tnint11.telogy.design.ti.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 525 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: dan@debian.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 03:48:27PM -0400, Zajerko-McKee, Nick wrote: > Hi, > > I'm porting some code from x86 to mips(32) and noticed that in > include/asm-mips/siginfo.h differs from include/asm-i386/siginfo.h in the > order of elements of the sigchld structure. Was this an oversight or a > design decision? I would think that it would be desirable to be almost the > same as the x86 for userland ease of portability... It's probably for compatibility with that other MIPS operating system - IRIX. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer