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To: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@plutotech.com>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys termios.h 
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From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
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> >>  Modified files:
> >>    sys/sys              termios.h 
> >>  Log:
> >>  Change a couple of long types to int to match NetBSD so that termios
> >>  works on alpha without any modifications.
> >
> >Unsigned long was correct (*).  Unsigned int is incorrect because ints
> >may be 16-bit.  NetBSD should be more concerned about this than us.
> 
> I believe that NetBSD decided that ints would be >= 32bits on all platforms
> some time ago.

Same with the OpenBSD crowd.

> --
> Justin
> 
> 

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