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| author | Patrik Nyblom <[email protected]> | 2010-02-04 15:21:36 +0100 |
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| committer | Björn Gustavsson <[email protected]> | 2010-03-10 14:25:03 +0100 |
| commit | 20ba5ed3c281d3f0be587395fa66182873d229f0 (patch) | |
| tree | ba60b3f78be5cfc208984e4c941f78410234a1e8 /erts/emulator/beam/sys.h | |
| parent | 0cbb78132f50be8ba38051963314b9722c1aba05 (diff) | |
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Add the BeamInstr data type for loaded BEAM code
For cleanliness, use BeamInstr instead of the UWord
data type to any machine-sized words that are used
for BEAM instructions. Only use UWord for untyped
words in general.
Diffstat (limited to 'erts/emulator/beam/sys.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | erts/emulator/beam/sys.h | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/erts/emulator/beam/sys.h b/erts/emulator/beam/sys.h index b48b147953..7ddf1d8278 100644 --- a/erts/emulator/beam/sys.h +++ b/erts/emulator/beam/sys.h @@ -231,6 +231,7 @@ EXTERN_FUNCTION(int, real_printf, (const char *fmt, ...)); ** Data types: ** ** Eterm: A tagged erlang term (possibly 64 bits) +** BeamInstr: A beam code instruction unit, possibly larger than Eterm, not smaller. ** UInt: An unsigned integer exactly as large as an Eterm. ** SInt: A signed integer exactly as large as an eterm and therefor large ** enough to hold the return value of the signed_val() macro. @@ -314,6 +315,8 @@ typedef Sint SWord; #endif /* HALFWORD_HEAP */ +typedef UWord BeamInstr; + #ifndef HAVE_INT64 #if SIZEOF_LONG == 8 #define HAVE_INT64 1 |