Date: Wed, 06 May 1998 15:34:51 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> Cc: committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys termios.h Message-ID: <199805062234.PAA00632@antipodes.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 07 May 1998 08:03:12 %2B1000." <199805062203.IAA26919@cimlogic.com.au>
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> To get a working FreeBSD/Alpha using a NetBSD kernel, I want to make as > few changes to FreeBSD sources as possible, and avoid destabilizing i386 > in the process. On alpha, that means int is 32 bits, long is 64 bits. > Where there are variables in user-space that are passed to the kernel in > FreeBSD/NetBSD and the size of these variables differs when compiled on > alpha, I change the variable so that there is no effective change to i386. > This commonly means that things coded as long and used as 32-bit integers > are changed to int. And pointers that are cast to int are changed to cast > to long. Is there a serious impediment to using *int32_t/*int64_t instead? These give you explicitly-sized storage, and make it clear that you mean them to stay that way... -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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