From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Eli Zaretskii" To: Andrew Cagney Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Mention signal fixes in NEWS Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 12:38:00 -0000 Message-id: <7137-Fri14May2004153637+0300-eliz@gnu.org> References: <40A27605.70805@gnu.org> <40A3BF84.2070203@gnu.org> X-SW-Source: 2004-05/msg00422.html > Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 14:33:40 -0400 > From: Andrew Cagney > > > > 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.