Re: Re: NPTL for hppa-linux is not backwards compatible with Linuxthreads.

Roland McGrath <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.ports.hppa,gmane.linux.debian.devel.glibc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> Unfortunatly, due to alignment the NPTL pthread_cond_t grows larger
> than the Linuxthreads version when I add the padding. This is the only
> structure the grows larger in size than before. Is there any way I can
> avoid adding the padding?

It looks to me like you have one word to spare.  That's all you really
need.  That word will only ever be 1 from old PTHREAD_COND_INITIALIZER.
Checking all three padding words is really just paranoia trying to
distinguish clobbered structs from old initialized data.


Thanks,
Roland
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