RFC: Use anonymous union for siginfo_t zack/anon-unions

C2011 officially includes an 'anonymous union' feature, and GCC has
supported it for many years.  It makes sub-fields of a union that's a
struct field appear to be fields of the parent struct.  If we use this
in the definition of siginfo_t, we don't need to define lots of
innocuous-looking identifiers like 'si_pid' as macros expanding to
chains of field accessors.  The catch, however, is that the compiler
used to compile *programs that use glibc* - not just glibc itself -
must accept the use of this feature (in system headers) even when
running in an older conformance mode.

This patch only touches siginfo_t, but if people like the idea, we
could also do it for several other types:

netinet/in.h (in6_addr)
sys/stat.h (stat)
utmp.h (utmp)
signal.h (sigaction, sigevent_t)
ucontext.h (ucontext_t)

and maybe also - these use names in the user namespace for the fields
that would be removed:

net/if.h (ifaddr)
ifaddrs.h (ifaddrs)
netinet/in6.h (ip6_hdr) (really should be bitfields instead)
netinet/icmp6.h (many)
net/if_ppp.h (ifpppstatsreq, ifpppcstatsreq)
net/if_shaper.h (shaperconf)
a.out.h (exec) (only some versions)
sys/quota.h (dqblk?) (the dq_* macros refer to a field that doesn't exist?!)

There are still more hits in sunrpc and nis, but since hopefully that
code is going to go away, I don't propose to mess with them.  And
there may be even more that aren't caught by grepping for
'#define IDENT IDENT.IDENT'.

As a side note (and this could be split for commit if felt
appropriate), the siginfo_t field aliases 'si_int' and 'si_ptr' are
not in POSIX.  There are a few uses of these within glibc itself, and
a handful more in third-party software (not glibc, not uclibc, and not
linux) so I have preserved them, but put them under __USE_MISC and
added a deprecation warning.

This passes the glibc testsuite on x86-64-linux, which probably
*doesn't* test the case where someone is compiling a program in
an older conformance mode that uses siginfo_t
(-std=c99 -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=600, perhaps).

What do you think?

zw

	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/bits/types/siginfo_t.h (siginfo_t):
	Use C2011 anonymous union and anonymous struct-in-union features
	to define this type.  Rename some public fields with their
	official names.
	(si_pid, si_uid, si_timerid, si_overrun, si_status, si_utime)
	(si_stime, si_value, si_addr, si_addr_lsb, si_lower, si_upper)
	(si_pkey, si_band, si_fd, si_call_addr, si_syscall, si_arch):
	Do not define as macros.
	(si_int, si_ptr): Define only when __USE_MISC, with deprecation
	warnings.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ia64/bits/siginfo-arch.h
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sparc/bits/siginfo-arch.h
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/tile/bits/siginfo-arch.h
	(__SI_SIGFAULT_ADDL): Define all fields with their public names
	when __USE_GNU, or with impl-namespace names otherwise.
	(si_imm, si_segvflags, si_isr, si_trapno): Do not define as macros.

	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/timer_routines.c (timer_helper_thread)
	Use si_value.sival_ptr instead of si_ptr.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/tst-getpid1.c (do_test):
	Use si_value.sival_int instead of si_int.

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