From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "R. Lake" Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 23:42:09 +0000 Subject: [RFC] Endianness and signals Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Further to my study of IA64 architecture, and to an extent the linux kernel, I wonder if the gate page ought to default to little endian upon issue of a signal. i.e. "rum 2" prior to any loads/stores? It would seem to me that in the current state, if the process were preempted immediately after a memory access (fundamentally) in big-endian mode the signal context would likely execute in the wrong endianness and fail. - It's my understanding that the user mask is preserved in the context switch. Regards, Richard.