From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/32: Remove powerpc specific definition of 'ptrdiff_t'
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2021 07:38:27 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210405123827.GM13863@gate.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e43d133bf52fa19e577f64f3a3a38cedc570377d.1617616601.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
On Mon, Apr 05, 2021 at 09:57:27AM +0000, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> For unknown reason, old commit d27dfd388715 ("Import pre2.0.8")
> changed 'ptrdiff_t' from 'int' to 'long'.
>
> GCC expects it as 'int' really,
It isn't actually defined in the ABI as far as I can see (neither the
old document or the new one), but GCC has defined it as "int" since
forever (which was in 1995), for anything using the SYSV ABI (which
includes powerpc-linux).
> <asm-generic/uapi/posix-types.h> defines it as 'int', and
> defines 'size_t' and 'ssize_t' exactly as powerpc do, so
> remove the powerpc specific definitions and fallback on
> generic ones.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Thanks!
Acked-by: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Segher
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-05 12:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-05 9:57 [PATCH] powerpc/32: Remove powerpc specific definition of 'ptrdiff_t' Christophe Leroy
2021-04-05 12:38 ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]
2021-04-10 14:28 ` Michael Ellerman
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