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Re: makecontext and its arguments

From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
Cc: Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot de>, GNU libc hacker <libc-hacker at sources dot redhat dot com>
Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2002 09:51:04 -0700
Subject: Re: makecontext and its arguments
References: <u8elddip92.fsf@gromit.moeb> <jeptwxv81s.fsf@sykes.suse.de>

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Andreas Schwab wrote:

IMHO this is a defect in the standard, because "integer" can mean
anything from char to long long and whatever extended integer type might
be defined.  It does not restrict the arguments to type "int".

I tend to agree. We use long for that reason. It's the most useful interpretation of "integer".

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