From: Davis Herring <herring@lanl.gov>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, kbrown@cornell.edu,
Angelo Graziosi <angelo.graziosi@alice.it>
Subject: Re: Too many warnings building Emacs with GCC 6 on MSYS2-MinGW64
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2016 10:17:36 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3d9a7a28-d82c-2ad6-f4b0-adfebe6b6544@lanl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83a8frfvxe.fsf@gnu.org>
> On Unix, execve indeed returns an int, because it's a process ID. On
> Windows, the return value can be a process handle, which is a 64-bit
> data type on 64-bit Windows. That is why the return value must be
> intptr_t, not an int.
No, it's an error code. (You said as much for POSIX in your following
message, but it's an error code on all systems.) If it succeeds, the
process image has been replaced and it doesn't return at all.
Davis
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-01 16:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-31 8:01 Too many warnings building Emacs with GCC 6 on MSYS2-MinGW64 Angelo Graziosi
2016-08-31 14:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-31 15:01 ` Angelo Graziosi
2016-08-31 15:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-31 17:40 ` Angelo Graziosi
2016-08-31 18:11 ` Ken Brown
2016-08-31 18:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-31 19:56 ` Angelo Graziosi
2016-09-01 2:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-01 7:44 ` Angelo Graziosi
2016-09-01 14:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-01 15:42 ` Angelo Graziosi
2016-09-01 16:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-01 16:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-01 16:14 ` Angelo Graziosi
2016-09-01 16:17 ` Davis Herring [this message]
2016-09-01 16:24 ` Ken Brown
2016-09-01 17:43 ` Davis Herring
2016-09-01 16:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-01 16:32 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-09-01 16:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-01 16:25 ` Angelo Graziosi
2016-09-01 16:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-01 19:44 ` Angelo Graziosi
2016-09-01 17:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-31 18:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-01 18:50 ` Richard Stallman
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