Re: [dev] Introducing SEE, the Simple Executing Engine

From: Pierre Chapuis <catwell_AT_archlinux.us>
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 12:20:57 +0200

On 23.10.2011 12:08, Pierre Chapuis wrote:
> On 22.10.2011 20:54, Rob wrote:
>
>> It's a similar compile time check similar to what dwm uses, in this
>> case, it
>> checks if gc_header_s is the same size as GC_HEADER_SPACE.
>
> OK, makes sense. But the build breaks because of this, which is
> understandable since gc_header_s is defined like this:
>
> struct gc_header_s
> {
> union
> {
> struct
> {
> unsigned char type;
> unsigned char mark;
> unsigned int prot_level;
> gc_header_t next, prev;
> };
>
> char __space[GC_HEADER_SPACE];
> };
> };

Precision: breaks *on a 64 bits machine* (gc_header_t is a pointer
so gc_header_s is 8 bytes larger than GC_HEADER_SPACE).
Received on Sun Oct 23 2011 - 12:20:57 CEST