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Date:      Tue, 26 Jul 2016 15:14:59 -0500
From:      Benjamin Kaduk <bjkfbsd@gmail.com>
To:        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:  <CAJ5_RoA5%2BAZyp%2BWGTNWHxWJ4SRsv=D0Q7nhCw0FLyv4_OECqYA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <201607262011.u6QKBTDp043256@repo.freebsd.org>
References:  <201607262011.u6QKBTDp043256@repo.freebsd.org>

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On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 3:11 PM, Ed Schouten <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.)

-Ben



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