From owner-cvs-all Sun Nov 14 2: 8:45 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A76114D51; Sun, 14 Nov 1999 02:08:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@scc.nl) Received: from [212.238.132.94] (helo=scones.sup.scc.nl) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 11mwag-000AM2-00; Sun, 14 Nov 1999 10:08:58 +0000 Received: from scc.nl (scones.sup.scc.nl [192.168.2.4]) by scones.sup.scc.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA28888; Sun, 14 Nov 1999 11:08:27 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from marcel@scc.nl) Message-ID: <382E8A1B.B7D9B7F0@scc.nl> Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 11:08:27 +0100 From: Marcel Moolenaar Organization: SCC vof X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.5 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Martin Cracauer Cc: cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/include signal.h References: <199911121352.FAA19904@freefall.freebsd.org> <19991114101145.A23853@cons.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Martin Cracauer wrote: > > In <199911121352.FAA19904@freefall.freebsd.org>, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > marcel 1999/11/12 05:52:11 PST > > > > Modified files: > > sys/i386/include signal.h > > Log: > > Reserve space for FPU state in struct sigcontext. Fix some style bugs > > and comments while there. > > I still don't like this approach of unstructred allocated space, an > array of unnamed bytes. It's what it says it is: it's a space reservation. If someone actually implements saving the FPU state, then he/she is free (IMO) to change the reservation into whatever he/she things he/she needs or thinks is meaningful. The reason for the space reservation is to work towards an unified context. mcontext_t also has the space reservation... -- Marcel Moolenaar mailto:marcel@scc.nl SCC Internetworking & Databases http://www.scc.nl/ The FreeBSD project mailto:marcel@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message