From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Bailey Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Re: A warning about NPTL pthreaddefs.h Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 03:12:42 -0700 Message-ID: <20060718101242.GA12796@titanium.v3.ca> References: <119aab440607171537p25d0350he9aa937c439c428a@mail.gmail.com> <44BC2900.4030303@tausq.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: parisc-linux To: Randolph Chung Return-Path: In-Reply-To: <44BC2900.4030303@tausq.org> List-Id: parisc-linux developers list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: parisc-linux-bounces@lists.parisc-linux.org On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 08:19:12AM +0800, Randolph Chung wrote: > >A warning that the pthreaddefs.h might be horribly wrong. I remember a > >long while ago adding padding the structures so they matched the size > >of the linuxthread types (atleast the lock position). > > > >This padding is not correct, we would need to pull into our tree the > >static mutex initializers so they are correctly sized aswell. > > fwiw,i don't think we need to worry about making the structs the same as > linuxthreads (if that is even possible...), after all you cannot run a > linuxthreads binary against nptl libs or vice versa... On other platforms, LT binaries generally run on the NPTL libs. If we break this, then there'll be an interesting upgrade problem for the distros tosolve that they haven't needed to do on other archs. Tks, Jeff Bailey -- I do not agree with a word you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. - Voltaire _______________________________________________ parisc-linux mailing list parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org http://lists.parisc-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/parisc-linux