Changeset 04b3c8c in mainline

Timestamp:

2011-07-12T23:37:21Z (14 years ago)

Author:

Petr Koupy <petr.koupy@…>

Branches:

lfn, master, serial, ticket/834-toolchain-update, topic/msim-upgrade, topic/simplify-dev-export

Children:

64639256

Parents:

50fc490

Message:

Updated a comment inside intrusive.sh.

File:

• uspace/app/binutils/intrusive.sh (modified) (2 diffs)

uspace/app/binutils/intrusive.sh

@@ -67 +67 @@
 #
 # Patch 4
-# Whereas most systems maps pid_t to signed type, HelenOS maps it
-# to unsigned type. This causes some type incompatibility in libiberty
+# Whereas most systems maps pid_t to signed int, HelenOS maps it
+# to 64-bit unsigned integer (which is further masked by libposix to
+# 64-bit signed integer). Because libiberty blindly expects pid_t to be
+# signed int, there is some type incompatibility in libiberty
 # files related to executing a subprocess. Since both as and ld are
 # not runtime dependent on this functionality, the simplest solution is
@@ -170 +172 @@
 
                 # Patch libiberty xstrerror.c.
+                # See Patch 6.
                 (
                 echo '#include <string.h>'