Re: struct sigcontext for N32 userland

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>]

On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 09:27:20AM +0100, Franck Bui-Huu wrote:

> On 2/12/07, Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp> wrote:
> >If N32 userland refers asm-mips/sigcontext.h, struct sigcontext cause
> >some troubles.
> >
> >#if _MIPS_SIM == _MIPS_SIM_ABI64 || _MIPS_SIM == _MIPS_SIM_NABI32
> >
> >struct sigcontext {
> >        unsigned long   sc_regs[32];
> >...
> >
> >
> >The kernel use 64-bit for sc_regs[0], and both N32/N64 userland
> >expects it was 64-bit.  But size of 'long' on N32 is actually 32-bit.
> >So this definition make some confusion.
> >
> >glibc has its own sigcontext.h and it uses 'unsigned long long' for
> >sc_regs, so no real problem with glibc.

Looks like a case for __u32, __u64 then.

> Just out of curiosity, for what purpose does the glibc use sigcontext ?

Afair it doesn't use sigcontext itself but makes it available to
applications through <signal.h>.  Typical users are virtual machines,
JITs, debuggers, user space virtual memory.

  Ralf