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Re: libsigsegv packaging problem


On May  5 10:50, Reini Urban wrote:
> 2011/5/3 Corinna Vinschen:
> > On May Â3 16:32, Reini Urban wrote:
> >> 2011/5/3 Corinna Vinschen:
> >> > AFAICS the only reason to include windows.h is to get the definition of
> >> > the CONTEXT type which in turn is used to typedef stackoverflow_context_t.
> >> >
> >> > Is it really necessary to expose this to the application? ÂWouldn't it
> >> > be better to define stackoverflow_context_t to void * for applications?
> >> > THus we can drop the unfortunate inclusion of windows.h and not clutter
> >> > the POSIX namespace with Windows definitions.
> >>
> >> Bruno will disapprove but for the cygwin port alone I can live with
> >> that workaround.
> >
> > Thanks, but why should Bruno not approve?
> 
> Because I thought we loose type strictness when casting to void.
> But now that I've looked at it it looks perfectly acceptable.
> There are other os' supported, which do cast to void. e.g.
> fault-bsd on non-intel or MirBSD
> 
> I'll release a fixed 2.10-1 update tomorrow.

Thank you!


Corinna

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