On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 08:52:26PM +0100, Philippe Gerum wrote: > > I've looked into the first ones only yet and it looks to me like the > > type definitions have to be reviewed carefully. For example, TASK_ID is > > defined to be unsigned long, whereas the vxworks documentation [1] looks > > more like if we need 'int' there. Which also makes me wonder if vxworks > > has a special idea about what 'int' is; > > VxWorks assumes 32bit and sizeof(void *) == sizeof(int), unfortunately. See > taskSpawn() for instance.
Yes, which probably means that using 'int' and friends is not a good idea. > Did you mean stdint.h? Probably better, yes. > What we need is an integer type which is able to carry a pointer on > 32/64bit platforms, so we should rather use intptr_t I guess, as per > C99, which expands as a long type. Object ids as unsigned long is a > left over from the co-kernel version, where we use actual integer > handles returned from kernel space, and not pointers in disguise. Will > fix, thanks. Hmm, if vxworks assumes "int" to be 32 bit, couldn't it lead to problems if the pointer size itself isn't 32 bit as well? > Merged, thanks. Doesn't show up on http://www.denx.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=xenomai-solo.git;a=summary ? Robert -- Dipl.-Ing. Robert Schwebel | http://www.pengutronix.de Pengutronix - Linux Solutions for Science and Industry Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 Hannoversche Str. 2, 31134 Hildesheim, Germany Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-9 _______________________________________________ Xenomai-core mailing list Xenomai-core@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/xenomai-core
