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Date:      Tue, 26 Jul 2016 15:35:47 -0500
From:      Pedro Giffuni <pfg@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Benjamin Kaduk <bjkfbsd@gmail.com>, Ed Schouten <ed@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r303342 - in head: include lib/libc/stdlib
Message-ID:  <5f0367b2-6916-b300-bba5-c3d3f3699a91@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAJ5_RoA5%2BAZyp%2BWGTNWHxWJ4SRsv=D0Q7nhCw0FLyv4_OECqYA@mail.gmail.com>
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On 07/26/16 15:14, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 3:11 PM, Ed Schouten <ed@freebsd.org
> <mailto:ed@freebsd.org>> wrote:
>
>     Author: ed
>     Date: Tue Jul 26 20:11:29 2016
>     New Revision: 303342
>     URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/303342
>
>     Log:
>       Fix typing of srandom() and initstate().
>
>       POSIX requires that these functions have an unsigned int for their
>     first
>       argument; not an unsigned long.
>
>       My reasoning is that we can safely change these functions without
>       breaking the ABI. As far as I know, our supported architectures either
>       use registers for passing function arguments that are at least as
>     big as
>       long (e.g., amd64), or int and long are of the same size (e.g., i386).
>
>
> Is a __FreeBSD_version bump planned?  (Third-party software might want
> to be warning-clean.)
>

Third party software should already follow standards ;).

Pedro.




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