On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 03:29:36PM +0200, Ralf Baechle wrote: > To maintaine compatibility with old debuggers and possibly other software > that knows about the stackframe layout I wrote the signal code to only > use the larger alignment of the stackframe if a particular processor > requires it. > > However one possible improvment would be to change the way a struct sigframe > or rt_sigframe is allocated on the stack such that not the beginning of > the structure is aligned but the rs_code field is kept aligned. Would > such a change cause problems for gdb? If you don't change the internal layout of the structure, I don't think GDB will even notice - it does not know about the more-aligned variant. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery
