Re: [perfmon2] [PATCH] Should use siginfo_t rather than struct siginfo

[William C. <wc...@re...>]

On 06/11/2012 04:15 PM, Vince Weaver wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Jun 2012, William Cohen wrote:
> 
>> Hi Phil,
>>
>> I notice that papi encounters a similar problem.  What would be requirement for the autoconf check? Use the struct siginfo if it exists and siginfo_t if no struct siginfo?
>>
>> -Will
> 
> 
> From what I gather the siginfo_t / struct siginfo stuff was only broken in 
> Linux 2.4.  I don't think PAPI really supports anything that old anymore.
> 
> It looks like all of our architectures besides Linux (at least the ones 
> that don't just have a dummy hwd_siginfo_t) are using siginfo_t already.
> 
> The change is just a one line fix in linux-context.h.  I'm willing to 
> commit it and back it out if it breaks anything.
> 
> Vince
> 

Hi Vince,

I have a one line fix that allow papi to compile with the siginfo_t. The patch is attached.

-Will