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Date:      Sun, 24 Jun 2001 12:20:26 +1000 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/i386 machdep.c
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0106241215310.52902-100000@besplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010623094902.A26803@dragon.nuxi.com>

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On Sat, 23 Jun 2001, David O'Brien wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 03:38:55PM -0700, John Baldwin wrote:
> > Perhaps it should be a u_long on the alpha?
> 
> Is this a case where our ssize_t should be used for?

No.  ssize_t is only required to be large enough to hold the value
32767 in theory, and only 2G-1 in practice on i386's.

Bruce


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