Re: [mips libgloss patch] fix types of a couple of vars in cfe.c

["J. Johnston" <jjohnstn at redhat dot com>]

Patch checked in.

-- Jeff J.

cgd@broadcom.com wrote:
> comments explain it.  tested for long enough in my private source tree
> (sb1-elf target) that i'd forgotten it was there.  8-)
>
> 2003-02-15  Chris Demetriou  <cgd@broadcom.com>
>
> 	* mips/cfe.c (__cfe_handle, __cfe_entrypt): Fix types.
>
> Index: mips/cfe.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/src/src/libgloss/mips/cfe.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.2
> diff -u -p -r1.2 cfe.c
> --- mips/cfe.c	5 Feb 2003 17:01:33 -0000	1.2
> +++ mips/cfe.c	16 Feb 2003 07:00:18 -0000
> @@ -48,9 +48,14 @@ static void *force_prestart = &_prestart
>     either you compile specially (with -fno-zero-initialized-in-bss), or
>     you init to non-zero.  In this case, initting to non-zero is OK (and
>     even beneficial; alignment fault via jump to odd if not properly
> -   set up by _prestart()), so we do the latter.  */
> -unsigned int __cfe_handle = 0xdeadbeef;
> -unsigned int __cfe_entrypt = 0xdeadbeef;
> +   set up by _prestart()), so we do the latter.
> +
> +   These variables are 'int's so they can be reliably stored w/ "sw".
> +   (longs fall victim to -mlong64.)  They are signed so that they remain
> +   valid pointers when extended to cfe_xuint_t in the call to cfe_init().
> +   This assumes that they are compatibility-space pointers.  */
> +int __cfe_handle = 0xdeadbeef;
> +int __cfe_entrypt = 0xdeadbeef;
>  
>  /* Echo input characters?  */
>  int	__cfe_echo_input = 0;