Bug#369453: makecontext/setcontext/getcontext not implemented on ARM architecture

2007-12-16 Thread David Given
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Millan wrote: [...] I'm interested in these functions too. I might be able to implement them; please could you provide a minimal architecture-independent test case? Even if I can't do it, having this might be helpful to someone else.

Bug#369453: makecontext/setcontext/getcontext not implemented on ARM architecture

2007-12-14 Thread David Given
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Millan wrote: [...] I'm interested in these functions too. I might be able to implement them; please could you provide a minimal architecture-independent test case? Even if I can't do it, having this might be helpful to someone else.

Bug#369453: makecontext/setcontext/getcontext not implemented on ARM architecture

2006-05-29 Thread David Given
Package: libc6 Version: 2.3.6-7 Attempting to use any of the ucontext family of functions --- makecontext, setcontext, getcontext, swapcontext --- produces the following link-time error: makecontext is not implemented and will always fail It's right; it does. I realise they're a bit exotic,

Bug#339827: linuxthreads crashes when using user stacks

2005-11-19 Thread David Given
On Saturday 19 November 2005 05:10, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: [...] We could ship a fourth variant of fifth variant of glibc for i686 using LinuxThreads. I am not particularly motivated to do this considering how rarely anyone encounters this problem, and the corresponding cost in archive

Bug#339827: linuxthreads crashes when using user stacks

2005-11-18 Thread David Given
Package: glibc Version: 2.3.5-8 Severity: important When using 2.4 kernels, the linuxthreads library makes an incorrect assumption about stack usage that causes applications to crash if they use user stacks. This does not occur on 2.6 kernels (because they use a different threading library). I