Re: sizeof (siginfo_t) problem

[David Mosberger]

>>>>> On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 08:40:00 -0400, Jakub Jelinek <[e-mail]> said:

  Jakub> # if __WORDSIZE == 64
  Jakub> #  define __SI_PAD_SIZE     ((__SI_MAX_SIZE / sizeof (int)) - 4)
  Jakub> # else
  Jakub> #  define __SI_PAD_SIZE     ((__SI_MAX_SIZE / sizeof (int)) - 3)
  Jakub> # endif

  Jakub> typedef struct siginfo
  Jakub> {
  Jakub> int si_signo;               /* Signal number.  */
  Jakub> int si_errno;               /* If non-zero, an errno value associated with
  Jakub> this signal, as defined in <errno.h>.  */
  Jakub> int si_code;                /* Signal code.  */

  Jakub> union
  Jakub> {
  Jakub> int _pad[__SI_PAD_SIZE];
  Jakub> ...
  Jakub> struct
  Jakub> {
  Jakub> void *si_addr;      /* Faulting insn/memory ref.  */
  Jakub> } _sigfault;
  Jakub> ...
  Jakub> } _sifields;
  Jakub> } siginfo_t;

  Jakub> The kernel unfortunately does this right on sparc64 and alpha
  Jakub> from 64-bit arches only; ia64, s390x, ppc64 etc. got it
  Jakub> wrong.

The ia64 kernel defines in asm-ia64/siginfo.h:

#define SI_PAD_SIZE	((SI_MAX_SIZE/sizeof(int)) - 4)

typedef struct siginfo {
	int si_signo;
	int si_errno;
	int si_code;
	int __pad0;

What's wrong with that?

	--david