Messages in this thread | | | Subject | RE: [patch 1/2] x86, ptrace: add version and last remaining sizeto status command | Date | Tue, 8 Jan 2008 10:17:05 -0000 | From | "Metzger, Markus T" <> |
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>-----Original Message----- >From: Ingo Molnar [mailto:mingo@elte.hu] >Sent: Dienstag, 8. Januar 2008 10:50
>please dont use shorts. Lets just us bts_size and no version >at all, ok?
OK.
We need to be careful to add the positive and negative flag for new features. Otherwise, we cannot distinguish between the default and the absence of that feature.
>and while at it, how about using u32/u64 for the fields (that's how we
OK.
>expose ABIs, even if we know that 'unsigned int' is always 32-bit on >x86), and add support for COMPAT as well?
COMPAT should already work.
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