From: Elad Lahav <elad_lahav@users.sourceforge.net>
To: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Signal handler arguments
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 02:54:26 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49B5D662.3090906@users.sourceforge.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49B543AF.4090902@users.sourceforge.net>
> The actual type of the third argument is architecture independant,
> that is why it is defined as "void *" rather than a specific type.
No. It is always a pointer to a ucontext_t structure. The *details* of
this structure are architecture-dependent. Please refer to page 1339 in
1003.1TM
Standard for Information Technology
Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX)
System Interfaces, Issue 6
Approved 12 September 2001
The Open Group
> Yes it says ucontext_t and sparc is the lone-wolf out here.
It's not a lone wolf, it's a misguided one.
--Elad
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-10 2:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-09 16:28 Signal handler arguments Elad Lahav
2009-03-10 0:06 ` David Miller
2009-03-10 2:54 ` Elad Lahav [this message]
2009-03-10 3:39 ` David Miller
2009-03-10 12:00 ` Elad Lahav
2009-03-10 12:17 ` David Miller
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