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Diffstat (limited to 'microkernel/mach/gnumach/projects')
| -rw-r--r-- | microkernel/mach/gnumach/projects/mach_5.mdwn | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/microkernel/mach/gnumach/projects/mach_5.mdwn b/microkernel/mach/gnumach/projects/mach_5.mdwn index 7b59170b..d7355f4b 100644 --- a/microkernel/mach/gnumach/projects/mach_5.mdwn +++ b/microkernel/mach/gnumach/projects/mach_5.mdwn @@ -54,11 +54,11 @@ rewrite rights and pointers to out-of-band memory, it has to parse the message. As type information and values are interleaved, it has to iterate over the whole message. -Furthermore, there are two kinds of type descriptors, mach_msg_type_t -and mach_msg_type_long_t. The reason for this is that the amount of -data that can be described using mach_msg_type_t is just 131072 byte. -This is because msgt_size is an 8-bit value describing the size of one -element in bits, and msgt_number is an 12-bit value describing the +Furthermore, there are two kinds of type descriptors, `mach_msg_type_t` +and `mach_msg_type_long_t`. The reason for this is that the amount of +data that can be described using `mach_msg_type_t` is just 131072 byte. +This is because `msgt_size` is an 8-bit value describing the size of one +element in bits, and `msgt_number` is an 12-bit value describing the number of items. ### Required change to the message format |