On 01/20/2012 02:40 PM, Roland McGrath wrote:
If you change the size of a regset, then the new full size will be the size of the core file notes. Existing userland tools will not be expecting this, they expect a known exact size. If you need to add new stuff, it really is easier all around to add a new regset flavor. When adding a new one, you can make it variable-sized from the start so as to be extensible in the future. We did this for NT_X86_XSTATE, for example.
Yes, that definitely seems cleaner. -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
