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From: HBO043%DJUKFA11.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Christoph van Wuellen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: use only short and long (not int) in struct message
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Date: 7 Jan 91 13:10:45 GMT
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This proposal relates to the last article:
If struct messages contains only short and long (no 'int'),
various parts of the system (user code, FS, MM, Kernel etc) can
communicate irrespective of wether they are compiled in 16-bit or
32-bit mode.

The FS must be modified since, e.g., a READ request must have
a 'long' parameter for nbytes.

I wonder if it is possible to build this into future MINIX versions.

C.v.W.