From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Tue, 23 Jan 2007 14:58:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: from nevyn.them.org ([66.93.172.17]:48853 "EHLO nevyn.them.org") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S28573884AbXAWO6u (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Jan 2007 14:58:50 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1H9N6m-0002aj-LE; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 09:58:48 -0500 Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 09:58:48 -0500 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Ralf Baechle Cc: Franck Bui-Huu , linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Clean up signal code Message-ID: <20070123145848.GA9900@nevyn.them.org> References: <1169561903878-git-send-email-fbuihuu@gmail.com> <20070123143214.GC18083@linux-mips.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070123143214.GC18083@linux-mips.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) 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: 13761 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 Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 02:32:14PM +0000, Ralf Baechle wrote: > > (b) Status register is saved by setup_sigcontext32() but > > not restored by restore_sigcontext(). Is it a bug ? > > Not really a bug but useless code, yes. We used to save c0_status in the > dark ages but again, no known code - not even IRIX code - relies on this > field. For once not even GDB uses it :-) -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery