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From:   Alistair Francis <alistair23@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 3 Jul 2019 11:40:39 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND 0/2] RISC-V: Handle the siginfo_t offset problem
To:     Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
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On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 12:08 AM Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> wrote:
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> On Jul 02 2019, Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@wdc.com> wrote:
>
> > In the RISC-V 32-bit glibc port [1] the siginfo_t struct in the kernel
> > doesn't line up with the struct in glibc. In glibc world the _sifields
> > union is 8 byte alligned (although I can't figure out why)
>
> Try ptype/o in gdb.

That's a useful tip, I'll be sure to use that next time.

Alistair

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> Andreas.
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