Re: X server support?

[Michael Lorenz <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost>]

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Hello,

On Sep 17, 2008, at 4:25 PM, matthew green wrote:

>    On 17-Sep-2008 Michael Lorenz wrote:
> > That's a known problem, Magnus Henoch posted a workaround on port-
> > macppc a while ago ( it 's a hack in ld.so_elf / rtld.c and avoids
> > using __builtin_return_addr(0) which occasionally returns bogus on
> > powerpc, so far xorg's module loader is the only known program that
> > triggers it. I'm not aware of a similar problem on any other CPU
> > architecture though.
>
>    I think we should commit this hack, along with all the other  
> hacks we have
>    lying about that are required to get X working.  Note them in  
> doc/HACKS or
>    whatever, but not having X is annoying.  (Wasn't the other one  
> an additional
>    syncicache that needed to be added somewhere?  Commit that one  
> too.)
>
>
> i agree, but please make them #ifdef __powerpc__ only.

Of course.

have fun
Michael

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