Re: [PATCH 1/7]: Fix sparc64 setjmp implementation.

From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7]: Fix sparc64 setjmp implementation.
Date: Sat, 07 Mar 2009 00:56:43 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090307005643.u3urxp4beo4k8o84-cebfxv@webmail.spamcop.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090306.163953.27529500.davem@davemloft.net>

Quoting David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>:

>> I was considering making grub_size_t long and grub_ssize_t unsigned
>> long.  I remember that it required many changes in string formats, so I
>> didn't feel it would be justified.  But we could try it again.
>
> You should use whatever is the appropriate size_t/ssize_t type on
> the given platform+ABI, and that way GRUB could use "%Zd" and/or
> "%zd" throughout.  Was that the plan?

No, the plan was to use long.  We don't support architectures where  
long and size_t have different sizes.  I'm not aware of such  
architectures.  I don't care about win64, as it would need some very  
special handling (perhaps redefinition of long).

I was trying to fix an inconsistency of the userspace, where size_t  
can be unsigned int or unsigned long.  Perhaps the plan was too  
ambitious.

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin