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From: "张 译仁" <zyr_ms@outlook.com>
To: "musl@lists.openwall.com" <musl@lists.openwall.com>
Subject: [musl] Confused length of `sigset_t`
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2022 15:49:04 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <OS3PR01MB557688F859612EEF849912F6ECB99@OS3PR01MB5576.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com> (raw)

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When supporting signal handling for my tiny OS, I notice that the defination of `sigset_t` which is used in signal handling is weird.

```
// include/alltypes.h.in
TYPEDEF struct __sigset_t { unsigned long __bits[128/sizeof(long)]; } sigset_t;
```

128 bytes (16 * long) are used for sigmask​ when 128 bits (2 * long) is enough.

Why? For strange compatibility? In my opinion, `unsigned long __bits[128/sizeof(long)/8]` is more reasonable.

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             reply	other threads:[~2022-06-27 15:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-06-27 15:49 张 译仁 [this message]
2022-06-27 16:18 ` Florian Weimer
2022-06-27 20:27   ` Rich Felker

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