libc: use more accurate type of sighandler_t on windows #4602
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tgross35
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Aug 9, 2025
| pub type uintptr_t = usize; | ||
| pub type ssize_t = isize; | ||
| pub type sighandler_t = usize; | ||
| pub type sighandler_t = *const c_void; |
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One concern: if Rust ever does get raw function pointers, it would be a breaking change to start using them. So I'm thinking maybe we should create an opaque type that would let us change to a raw function pointer at some point, ideally something compatible with rust-lang/libs-team#589 (comment).
Will need to think about this a bit
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Description
Changes the type of
sighandler_ton windows fromusizeto*const c_voidas per #1637 to more accurately represent the fact that it is a pointer to a function (since the value of the address is also sometimes matched without dereferencing it).A better type would be
Option<extern fn ...>however because of the dual use ofsighandler_tas a constant, it would be undefined behavior to construct that type from something like5.Sources
https://github.com/msys2/msys2-runtime/blob/23a25d49e3b8c18f12ce588869d4cb24de9f2454/newlib/libc/machine/cris/sys/signal.h#L23
Checklist
libc-test/semverhave been updated*LASTor*MAXareincluded (see #3131)
cd libc-test && cargo test --target mytarget);especially relevant for platforms that may not be checked in CI