Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262298AbTEEO5U (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 May 2003 10:57:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262305AbTEEO5U (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 May 2003 10:57:20 -0400 Received: from adsl-66-127-195-58.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net ([66.127.195.58]:61380 "EHLO panda.mostang.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262298AbTEEO5S (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 May 2003 10:57:18 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16054.32214.804891.702812@panda.mostang.com> Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 08:05:58 -0700 To: Richard Henderson Cc: David Mosberger-Tang , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix vsyscall unwind information In-Reply-To: <20030505074248.GA7812@twiddle.net> References: <20030502004014$08e2@gated-at.bofh.it> <20030503210015$292c@gated-at.bofh.it> <20030504063010$279f@gated-at.bofh.it> <20030505074248.GA7812@twiddle.net> X-Mailer: VM 7.03 under Emacs 21.2.1 Reply-To: David.Mosberger@acm.org X-URL: http://www.mostang.com/~davidm/ From: davidm@mostang.com (David Mosberger-Tang) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 666 Lines: 17 >>>>> On Mon, 5 May 2003 00:42:48 -0700, Richard Henderson said: >> If not, could one be added? Richard> Why? Certainly it isn't needed for x86. Certain applications (such as debuggers) want to know. Sure, you can do symbol matching (if you have the symbol table) or code-reading (assuming you know the exact sigreturn sequence), but having a marker would be more reliable and faster. --david - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/