Re: [committed mig] Do not generate code dereferencing type-punned pointers

On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 11:09 AM, Justus Winter <4win...@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> wrote: > * utils.c (WriteFieldDeclPrim): Generate a union with an additional > pointer field for variable-length arrays. This makes GDB's awk script go haywire because it doesn't know how to deal with unions. The

Static binaries and nss (dlopen actually)

Hello, Static binaries currently can't make use of nss functions (or more generally really use dlopen-ed libraries). What happens is that when the nss plugin library gets loaded, e.g. /lib/i386-gnu/libnss_files.so.2, by dependency libc.so gets loaded, i.e. a *second* libc (the first being the one

Re: Server delegation (fsys_forward)

Hello, Justus Winter, le Sat 14 Feb 2015 01:21:16 +0100, a écrit : > I was wondering what you think about the server delegation mechanism. > What are the pros or the original motivation (memory footprint > maybe?), what are the cons (reduced robustness?). I don't know the initial intention, so I'

[committed hurd] libports: avoid acquiring global lock in message dispatch

* libports/interrupt-operation.c (ports_S_interrupt_operation): Update `cancel_threshold' using atomic operations. * libports/manage-multithread.c (internal_demuxer): Avoid taking the lock. * libports/ports.h (struct port_info): Mention that one needs atomic operations to access `cancel_threshold'.