Re: RFC: adding __jbslot_t to <machine/ansi.h>

[Matt Thomas <matt%3am-software.com@localhost>]

On Jul 28, 2009, at 9:12 PM, David Holland wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 08:46:23PM -0700, Matt Thomas wrote:
> > While looking at adding MIPS N32 ABI support to NetBSD, one of the
> > impediments I've stumbled across is the use of long which defining  
> > the
> > various jmp_buf variants.  In N32, long is not large enough to  
> > contain a
> > register value since registers are 64bits long.
> >
> > To fix this, I want to add __jbslot_t to <machine/ansi.h> which  
> > will be
> > typedef'ed to long except which N32 is used on MIPS.
> >
> > I'll then change <setjmp.h> to use jbslot_t instead of long.
>
> Don't we already have a register_t for this kind of thing?

Can't use it due to namespace pollution from <machine/types.h> which  
lots of other crap.