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Re: jmp_buf size?


On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 05:07:42PM +0000, Jay wrote:
>
>What is up with the size of jmp_buf?
>It appears that setjmp.h confuses bytes and ints.
>_JBLEN should be 13, not 13*4.
>or #define _JBTYPE to char, but that doesn't work as easily.

Huh.  You would think that the fact that Cygwin's definition of _JBLEN
differed from every other definition would have been a clue that
something was amiss here.

It appears to be an ancient (pre-2000 when I pulled newlib onto
sourceware.org) typo but there is no easy way we can change this now.

cgf

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