Messages in this thread |  | | From | David Mosberger <> | Date | Fri, 24 Jan 2003 10:23:31 -0800 | Subject | return-type for search_extable() |
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Hi Rusty,
Could you please change the return-type of search_extable() to something that allows a bit more flexibility? The value returned by this function is "something that lets architecture-specific code recover from a memory-managment-fault". This may or may not be the same as an exception_table_entry. For example, on ia64, I want to return an already-relocated fixup-word. Perhaps the cleanest way to fix this would be to have:
exception_fixup_t search_extable (...);
By default, you could then use
typedef struct exception_table_entry *exception_fixup_t;
and on ia64 I could use:
typedef long exception_fixup_t.
The only restriction on exception_fixup_t would be that it's a type that can be tested for being equal to zero and, if it is zero, it would mean that there is no exception-table entry.
Alternatively, we could make search_extable() just always return a "void *" or a "long", but that's less clear and less type-safe.
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