Date: Fri, 27 May 2016 11:11:20 +0300 From: Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> To: Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org> Cc: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r300718 - in head/sys: kern sys Message-ID: <20160527081120.GJ38613@kib.kiev.ua> In-Reply-To: <da70cbf0-4e4a-7050-f84b-25d00aad7b78@selasky.org> References: <201605260841.u4Q8ft9r045564@repo.freebsd.org> <20160526213716.GK58287@FreeBSD.org> <da70cbf0-4e4a-7050-f84b-25d00aad7b78@selasky.org>
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On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 09:42:24AM +0200, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: > We cannot use the "bool" type in userspace at least, because > sizeof(bool) depends on the compiler. So the interface must use an > integer type at least, possibly uint8_t like now. What do you mean ? There are ABIs, and we expect all used compilers to follow common arch ABI. Old psABIs date back to time where _Bool did not existed yet, but now it is ubiquitious. E.g. both i386 and amd64 require _Bool have a representation by single byte, with the byte alignment. Can you give exact examples of the inconsistencies, on any platform, regardless of our tier ?
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