Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 22:44:53 -0500 (CDT) From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org> To: fhackers@jraynard.demon.co.uk Cc: rotel@indigo.ie, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PR kern/1144 Message-ID: <199804140344.WAA08670@detlev.UUCP> In-Reply-To: <19980413160603.35279@jraynard.demon.co.uk> (message from James Raynard on Mon, 13 Apr 1998 16:06:03 %2B0100) References: <199804131247.NAA01565@indigo.ie> <19980413160603.35279@jraynard.demon.co.uk>
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>> The abovementioned PR is for sig{add, del}set and sigismember.
>> Apparently POSIX requires that these functions check that the
>> specified signal number exists, which they currently do not do.
> Ah yes, that was one I submitted so long ago I'd forgotten about
> the email account I sent it from. :-) BTW if whoever was responsible
> for the weekly mailing of outstanding PRs is reading this, is there
> any chance of getting it back?
>> These functions are currently defined as macro's, I don't see any
>> nice, fast, MT-safe way that only evaluates the signal number
>> argument once that adds the checking that POSIX requires while
>> keeping them as macros.
> I very much doubt that one exists.
I forget, what's our position on using gcc's extentions? It's got
some very nice macro features that seem like they could work.
Happy hacking,
joelh
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