Ada and x86_64

[Andreas Jaeger]

Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:

> David Edelsohn <dje@watson.ibm.com> writes:
>
>> While knowing nothing about Ada,
>>
>> 	private
>> 	   type sigset_t is array (0 .. 31) of unsigned_long;
>> 	   pragma Convention (C, sigset_t);
>> 	   for sigset_t'Size use 1024;
>
> unsigned_long is is 64 bit on x86-64, I think , so the minimum size
> for the array is indeed 2048 bits.  You could change unsigned_long to
> unsigned_int; this should in 1024 bits on x86-64, too.  However, I'm
> not sure if sigset_t really has this size on x86-64.

The solution we come up with is to use array (0..15) to get 1024
bytes,

Andreas
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