Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 09:42:04 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: Dan Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com> Cc: arch@freebsd.org, Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> Subject: Re: Getcontext resolution? Message-ID: <XFMail.020108094204.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <3C3AE665.4D6B72A6@vigrid.com>
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On 08-Jan-02 Dan Eischen wrote: > Doug Rabson wrote: >> >> On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Dan Eischen wrote: >> >> > I'm incorporating Doug Rabson's comments. makecontext will allow >> > passing pointers as arguments to the start function, and the argument >> > count will not be passed as a parameter: >> >> I've been thinking about this and I think that possibly 'intptr_t' would >> be a better type for the arguments than 'uintptr_t' since that is a signed >> type. > > OK, will change it. This is really only applicable to alpha and > other 64-bit archs, though. I've left i386 as int's since we know > it's always going to be 32-bits, right? intptr_t is 32-bits on i386. It's easier to just use the same type everywhere. Also, you could consider the new C99 type intmax_t. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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