Review Request: Zero and Shark fixes

Christian Thalinger christian.thalinger at oracle.com
Tue Aug 17 02:19:17 PDT 2010


On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 10:03 +0100, Gary Benson wrote:
> > 1. Why does the assert not hold?
> 
> It's checking something about the stack layout which is true
> with the native x86 stack but false with the Zero stack.

OK.

> 
> > 2. Why would anyone build Shark on x86?
> 
> Testing.  If you can reproduce an ARM issue on x86 then you
> can build it in 30 seconds instead of 30 hours :)

Haha!  That makes sense.  The changes look good.

-- Christian



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