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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: "Zack Weinberg" <zack@owlfolio.org>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>,
	"Cyril Hrubis" <chrubis@suse.cz>,
	"linux-arch@vger.kernel.org" <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>,
	libc-alpha@sourceware.org,
	"linux-api@vger.kernel.org" <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"David Laight" <David.Laight@aculab.com>,
	"ltp@lists.linux.it" <ltp@lists.linux.it>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] uapi: Make __{u,s}64 match {u,}int64_t in userspace
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2021 15:01:53 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <913509.1638457313@warthog.procyon.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b8d6f890-e5aa-44bf-8a55-5998efa05967@www.fastmail.com>

Zack Weinberg <zack@owlfolio.org> wrote:

> I could be persuaded otherwise with an example of a program for which
> changing __s64 from 'long long' to 'long' would break *binary* backward
> compatibility, or similarly for __u64.

C++ could break.

David


  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-12-02 15:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-22 16:43 [PATCH] uapi: Make __{u,s}64 match {u,}int64_t in userspace Cyril Hrubis
2021-11-22 16:51 ` Alejandro Colomar (mailing lists)
2021-11-22 20:48 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-11-23  9:14   ` Cyril Hrubis
2021-11-23 14:18     ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-11-23 19:50     ` Florian Weimer
2021-11-24 10:17       ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2021-11-22 22:19 ` Zack Weinberg
2021-11-23  9:15   ` Cyril Hrubis
2021-12-02 15:34   ` Rich Felker
2021-12-02 23:29     ` Rich Felker
2021-12-02 23:43       ` Adhemerval Zanella
2021-12-03  0:10         ` Zack Weinberg
2021-12-03 12:32           ` Adhemerval Zanella
2021-12-03 12:54             ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2021-11-23 16:47 ` David Howells
2021-11-23 16:58   ` David Laight
2021-11-29 11:58     ` Cyril Hrubis
2021-11-29 14:34       ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-12-02 14:55         ` Zack Weinberg
2021-12-02 15:01         ` David Howells [this message]
2021-12-02 20:48           ` Zack Weinberg
2021-12-08 15:33           ` Cyril Hrubis
2022-06-17 12:13             ` Ping: " Alejandro Colomar
2022-06-17 15:04               ` Cyril Hrubis

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