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On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 04:16:33PM +0200, Manuel Lauss wrote:

> current -git build breaks because of upstream commit
> a337fdac7a5622d1e6547f4b476c14dfe5a2c892, which introduced
> an unconditional check for siginfo_._sifields._sifault._si_addr_lsb field.
> 
> Is there a reason why MIPS doesn't use the default siginfo_t structure
> as other architectures do?

History - the MIPS structure is identical to IRIX.

  Ralf