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Date:      Tue, 1 Jul 2003 14:17:56 -0500
From:      Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha machdep.c src/sys/amd64/amd64 machdep.c src/sys/i386/i386 machdep.c src/sys/ia64/ia64 machdep.c src/sys/pc98/i386 machdep.c src/sys/powerpc/powerpc machdep.c src/sys/sparc64/sparc64 machdep.c
Message-ID:  <20030701141756.A4131@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20030701142800.jhb@FreeBSD.org>; from jhb@FreeBSD.org on Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 02:28:00PM -0400
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* John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> [ Date: 2003-07-01 ]
	[ w.r.t. RE: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha machdep.c src/sys/amd64/amd64 machdep.c src/sys/i386/i386 machdep.c src/sys/ia64/ia64 machdep.c src/sys/pc98/i386 machdep.c src/sys/powerpc/powerpc machdep
> 
> On 28-Jun-2003 David Xu wrote:
> > davidxu     2003/06/27 23:34:08 PDT
> > 
> >   FreeBSD src repository
> > 
> >   Modified files:
> >     sys/alpha/alpha      machdep.c 
> >     sys/amd64/amd64      machdep.c 
> >     sys/i386/i386        machdep.c 
> >     sys/ia64/ia64        machdep.c 
> >     sys/pc98/i386        machdep.c 
> >     sys/powerpc/powerpc  machdep.c 
> >     sys/sparc64/sparc64  machdep.c 
> >   Log:
> >   Add a machine depended function thread_siginfo, SA signal code
> >   will use the function to construct a siginfo structure and use
> >   the result to export to userland.
> >   
> >   Reviewed by: julian
> 
> Perhaps call this cpu_thread_siginfo() to match the cpu_* naming
> convention for other MD functions?

Even then, it's overkill.  A single MI-interface for an MD routine
that will fill in MD-only parts of a siginfo, or even just return the
MD parts (I think there's exactly one) for use by higher level would
be nice.
-- 
juli mallett. email: jmallett@freebsd.org; efnet: juli; aim: bsdflata;
i have lost my way home early - i don't care cause i won't stay there.



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