Subject: Re: CVS commit: syssrc/sys/arch/powerpc/powerpc
To: Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@netbsd.org>
From: Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 11/01/2002 15:42:24
Jaromir Dolecek wrote:
> Matt Thomas wrote:
> > >Hm... the p-o-2 dance is to allow it to simple mask-and-jump, to save
> > >the comparison and branch....  I think it *should* actually be NSYSENT.
> > 
> > So do I, but that isn't currently done.
> 
> I don't understand. Note that the syscall array is rounded up to
> nearest power of two, so there are guaranteed to be 512 entries

Err, 512 for 'native' syscall array, 128 for Mach compat.

Jaromir

> at the moment. The code there should work just fine in the form it
> was in rev 1.8. What was the exact problem you tried to fix?
> Note that MACH_SYS_MAXSYSCALL == MACH_SYS_NSYSENT == 128.
> 
> Jaromir 
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Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@NetBSD.org>            http://www.NetBSD.org/
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-=- Buddhist masters say, ``You may notice during meditation that you -=-
-=- sometimes levitate or glow.   Do not let this distract you.''     -=-