makecontext and its arguments

Ulrich Drepper drepper@redhat.com
Mon Aug 5 09:51:00 GMT 2002


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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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