From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754841Ab1H2TEx (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Aug 2011 15:04:53 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:44397 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754332Ab1H2TEv (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Aug 2011 15:04:51 -0400 Message-ID: <4E5BE29E.8050803@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 12:03:58 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:6.0) Gecko/20110816 Thunderbird/6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Geert Uytterhoeven CC: Linus Torvalds , LKML , "H.J. Lu" , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: RFD: x32 ABI system call numbers References: <4E582577.2060805@zytor.com> <4E582EAA.1040108@zytor.com> <4E584492.5090406@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 08/29/2011 12:01 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > Which will break all this non-portable 32-bit-only source code x32 was invented > for in the first place? > Someone will pass a time_t or off_t and an innocent pointer to a custom > printf-alike function to format it like "%u %s" and it will go bang... > Yes, this is the downside... -hpa