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Re: Mention signal fixes in NEWS
- From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz at gnu dot org>
- To: Andrew Cagney <cagney at gnu dot org>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 15:36:37 +0200
- Subject: Re: Mention signal fixes in NEWS
- References: <40A27605.70805@gnu.org> <usme4swlb.fsf@gnu.org> <40A3BF84.2070203@gnu.org>
- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
> Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 14:33:40 -0400
> From: Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>
> >
> > I'd prefer that we spell out what this ``support for sigaltstack and
> > sigaction'' means, in user-level terms. That is, what exactly didn't
> > work before and now does, when sigaltstack and sigaction are involved?
>
> ... include: backtraces through non-contigious stacks (see
> sigaltstack(2)); recognition of sa_sigaction signal trampolines (see
> sigaction(2)); ...
I think it's enough to add this text (even without the references to
the functions' man pages).
> However we can probably safely state that the features do work on
> ``i386 GNU/Linux systems that include a 2.4 kernel''.
That's good enough, I think.