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Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 10:32:45 -0800
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: extending callbacks?
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Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> ???
> 
> static void *my_fixed_arg;
> int temp_cb(int u)
> {
>         return real_cb(u, my_fixed_arg);
> }
> 
> Generally works.  The variant that builds that code on the fly for
> create_callback is a little more interesting of course.
> 

Well, of course you can do anything with a thunk.  I thought the 
question was if you can do the call *directly*.

	-hpa