Re: [bug-libsigsegv] Stack overflow tests fail on hppa-unknown-linux-gnu with libsigsegv-2.9

[Bruno Haible]

Hi John,

In https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-libsigsegv/2012-11/msg00000.html
you wrote:

> The stack overflow tests currently fail on hppa-linux. As noted in the
> attached patch, this is a kernel bug. The kernel/glibc do not correctly
> adjust the stack pointer passed to the signal handling function. It needs
> to be correctly aligned and provide frame space for arguments, etc.

And later you pushed this fix into the Linux 3.8 release [1][2]. Great!

Thanks!

Bruno

[1] 
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/arch/parisc/kernel/signal.c?id=ad30f3ff3deb4037f2beea15812d01d795f8b3cc
[2] http://lxr.linux.no/#linux+v3.8/arch/parisc/kernel/signal.c