[klibc] [PATCH] small addition to ia64's archsignal.h

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Fri Dec 12 16:01:56 PST 2003


Olaf Hering wrote:
>  On Mon, Nov 24, Martin Hicks wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hi Peter,
>>
>>I need this small patch to get udev to compile against the latest
>>klibc.  I'm not sure if this is the right thing to do, but it fixes the
>>compile.
> 
> why did you define sig_atomic_t only for ia64?
> It seems glibc defines sig_atomic_t just to an int, so why is it not for
> all archs? tdb in udev requires a sig_atomic_t.
> 

Makes sense to me (even though I'd personally would prefer if
sig_atomic_t was 64 bits on architectures which can atomically load and
store 64 bits... it's not a big deal, and as you say glibc doesn't do that.)

	-hpa



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