On Wednesday 07 April 2004 1:33 pm, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 09:41:01AM +0300, Jukka Andberg wrote:
> > - additionally, the method it uses to check the spl level
> > (comparing return values from spl* functions) doesn't work very
> > well on amiga as the m68k spl* functions seem set only the lower 16
> > bits of the return value, the upper bits being 'random'.
>
> Uh-oh. and splfoo(0 is supposed to return int? Or do we have a spl_t
> definition that we don't use yet?

This behaviour was something I introduced a while ago to speed up spl* 
on m68k. It's quite normal and nothing to worry about.

Any, return values from the spl*() functions should be considered as 
opaque cookies for use in a subsequent call to splx() only.

Cheers, Steve