Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 11:08:27 +0100 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@scc.nl> To: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> Cc: cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/include signal.h Message-ID: <382E8A1B.B7D9B7F0@scc.nl> References: <199911121352.FAA19904@freefall.freebsd.org> <19991114101145.A23853@cons.org>
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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
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