[PATCH] Eliminate third argument from _JMPBUF_UNWINDS

Andreas Schwab schwab@linux-m68k.org
Mon Jun 16 23:09:00 GMT 2014


Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com> writes:

> This all but ensures that when a machine adds PTR_MANGLE/PTR_DEMANGLE
> support, or changes how it does the mangling, that the corresponding
> update in jmpbuf-unwind.h will be forgotten.

That will not happen.

> How is this better?

It removes a layer violation and consolidates the jmpbuf handling into
the architecture header.  The caller must not have knowlege of the
jmpbuf internals.

Andreas.

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