Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 16:06:37 +1000 From: Tony Griffiths <tonyg@OntheNet.com.au> To: "Brent J. Nordquist" <bjn@visi.com> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Alpha S/Key fixed/verified Message-ID: <35A5AF6D.4D1BED1B@OntheNet.com.au> References: <199807100426.XAA27506@thumper.visi.com>
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Brent J. Nordquist wrote:
>
[snip]
> (1) A patch to lib/libskey/skeysubr.c -- u_long was used to select a
> 32-bit quantity, which breaks on the Alpha. I'm sure we're going to
> see a lot of these. Do we have an agreed-on method of handling them?
> (Is there a type that's mapped to 32 bits on all systems, or are we just
> going to use unsigned int as that type?) If there's a type that should
> be used, then this patch should change.
In file "/usr/include/machine/types.h" you will find the definitions of the
u_int{8,16,32,64] and int{8,16,32,64} typedefs.
Obviously Alpha will have a _slightly_ different definition for u_int64 and
int64 but you should be guaranteed the bit size on both architectures!
Tony
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