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Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 08:30:27 +0100
From: Pascal Hofstee <caelian@gmail.com>
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Subject: a question regarding <sys/shm.h>
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Hi,

In a recent attempt in trying to clean up some compiler warnings in a 
GNUstep related project i came upon a case where the FreeBSD datatypes 
seemed to disagree with the Linux ones. Though this in itself is not 
unusual i do wonder if in this case the Linux definition isn't the more 
proper one.

The definition in question is inside <sys/shm.h> and involves
struct shmid_ds.shm_segsz which seems to be defined as "int" whereas 
Linux defines this as "size_t".

I understand these definitions are usually platform dependent but am 
wondering if Linux's size_t wouldn't be a more proper type for this 
field .. and if it would make sense to perhaps synchronize our datatypes 
used here with those used by Linux?


With kind regards,
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   Pascal Hofstee