Ada and x86_64
Robert Dewar
dewar@gnat.com
Wed Aug 28 04:47:00 GMT 2002
> > 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 whole point of these declarations is to match the C definition for
sigset_t, and these declarations must be tailored to meet this requirement.
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