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Re: glibc 2.27: less than two weeks till release
On Mon, 22 Jan 2018, Szabolcs Nagy wrote:
> on aarch64 a list of cpu states (e.g fp registers) can only be
> accessed via parsing the __reserved member (there are no macros
> or functions defined for this, the user has to manually cast).
If there are semantics beyond simply being reserved, there needs to be a
prominent comment explaining how there are already such semantics in
current kernel etc. versions, since any field that is just reserved should
be named using the __glibc_reserved convention, not __reserved, __unused,
__pad etc. (and __reserved without such an explanation thus looks like a
field that should be renamed to conform to normal glibc coding style).
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Joseph S. Myers
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