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From: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] replace struct ucontext with ucontext_t
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To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, Kamil Rytarowski <kamil@netbsd.org>, Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@iki.fi>, QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>

Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> writes:

> On 28 June 2017 at 21:44, Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com> wrote:
>> The ucontext_t type had a tag struct ucontext until now
>> but newer glibc will drop it so we need to adjust and use
>> the exposed type instead
>
> If true this seems like a bug in glibc to break
> existing working programs, and it should be fixed there...

I'd support that notion.  However, SUSv2 documents ucontext_t, not
struct ucontext.  Using the former instead of the latter makes sense as
a portability improvement, doesn't it?