On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 01:50:35PM +0000, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: >On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Egbert Eich wrote: > >> Guys, please bear with me: why do we need this typedef for >> xf86jmp_buf at all? This buffer is normally allocated with >> something like: >> >> buf = malloc(sizeof(jmp_buf)); >> >> When setjmp.h is included this size is known at compile time. >> We'd just have to get rid of the defines for xf86jmp_buf >> in xf86_libc.h (as well as the defines for xf86set/longjmp) >> and everything should be OK. The the alias isn't needed either. > >I may not know what I'm talking about. > >I thought that the problem was that modules are supposed to work >across operating system and compiler, so the compile-time size >might not be big enough when the module is run on a different system.
Yes, that's right. Also, with the proposed change, the module won't be including setjmp.h directly anyway. David -- David Dawes Release Engineer/Architect The XFree86 Project www.XFree86.org/~dawes _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
