Serious Bug All Targets -- Please Read

Till Straumann strauman at slac.stanford.edu
Tue Mar 3 02:54:57 UTC 2009


Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> Till Straumann wrote:
>> Hmm - AFAIK, c99 doesn't specify the exact representation
>> of 'bool' / '_Bool'. It only says that
>>
>> "An object declared as type _Bool is large enough to store the values 
>> 0 and 1"
>>
>> Hence, there is no really safe way to access such
>> an object from assembly code.
> Exactly.
>
>> I wonder if it wouldn't be better to change the
>> type of _Context_Switch_necessary & friends
>> to a type of known width.
> IMO, no.
>
> We should change to code into something which doesn't need to know the 
> size of a type, rsp. automatically gets it right.
So how would you do that given the requirement
that these variables need to be available to
assembly code, maybe w/o a stack available?

T.
>
> Ralf




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