Subject: Re: SA/pthread syscall versioning
To: Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 12/11/2003 16:42:23
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On Dec 11, 2003, at 4:17 PM, Matt Thomas wrote:

> It's not uninitialized.  Initially, it was set to all-0 and may now 
> contain
> previous stack contents.  I doubt purify would complain since it was 
> not
> able to control its creation.  I see no reason to copy data to the user
> stack that the user won't be looking at.  It's just wasteful.

Agreed.

         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>


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