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Re: [PATCH] getpid/vfork/raise fix

>>>>> On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 17:07:58 +0100, Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> said:

  Jakub> One (plus b0) is needed.  But first of all I'd like to
  Jakub> understand the differences between NPTL pt-vfork.S and libc
  Jakub> vfork.S on IA-64.  Why does one use DO_CALL_VIA_BREAK and the
  Jakub> other one DO_CALL, one has gas workarounds and one does not?

My memory is a bit fuzzy (isn't it always... ;-), but as I remember
it, new-style syscall stub support is tied to NPTL, so vfork.S is
never actually compiled when new-style syscalls stubs are in effect.
Because of that, DO_CALL_VIA_BREAK isn't _necessary_ for vfork.S.
Furthermore, the gas workarounds are needed only for the new-style
syscall stubs.  If you preferred them to be in sync, I _think_ it
would be OK to make vfork.S more similar (perhaps even identical) to
pt-vfork.S.

	--david
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