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Re: [PATCH gnumach] Update the 64bit RPC ABI to be simpler (v2)


From: Samuel Thibault
Subject: Re: [PATCH gnumach] Update the 64bit RPC ABI to be simpler (v2)
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2023 16:21:42 +0200
User-agent: NeoMutt/20170609 (1.8.3)

Sergey Bugaev, le mer. 09 août 2023 11:48:29 +0300, a ecrit:
> On Wed, Aug 9, 2023 at 4:10 AM Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@gnu.org> 
> wrote:
> > So, is anybody against making this change?
> 
> I trust Flávio to understand RPC ABI much better than I do.
> 
> That being said, I don't quite understand the point of this change: we
> cannot get rid of mach_msg_type_long_t completely on 32-bit platforms
> anyway, so what advantages does this bring?

It makes mach_msg_type_long_t shorter, down to 8 from 16 bytes.

Samuel



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