On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 05:52:32PM +0100, Ingo Molnar ([email protected]) wrote:
> > +The syslet atom is a small, fixed-size (44 bytes on 32-bit) piece of
> > +user-space memory, which is the basic unit of execution within the syslet
> > +framework. A syslet represents a single system-call and its arguments.
> > +In addition it also has condition flags attached to it that allows the
> > +construction of larger programs (syslets) from these atoms.
> > +
> > +Arguments to the system call are implemented via pointers to arguments.
>
> I've just thought, how x86/x86_64 problem is going to be solved for
> pointer size? Is it better to wire longs/pointers to 64 bits right now?
Compat code is gonna to be fun also for that (pointers to args, and "next"
chaining pointer).
- Davide
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