From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
GNU C Library <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: x32 and width of blksize_t, suseconds_t
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 07:31:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F634EA4.9070709@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F62F786.2070907@cs.ucla.edu>
On 03/16/2012 01:19 AM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Come to think of it, the proposed x32 patch may have issues
> with blksize_t and suseconds_t as well. POSIX says that an x32
> implementation must support at least one programming environment
> (presumably settable via a feature test macro) where blksize_t
> and suseconds_t are no wider than 'long'; see
> <http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/sys_types.h.html>.
> But if I understand things correctly, x32 glibc would
> define these to be 'long long'. This issue affects system
> calls such as 'stat' and 'select'.
That's just not going to happen, sorry. Why on Earth is this a
requirement? It makes no sense whatsoever.
-hpa
--
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
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2012-03-15 22:19 ` PATCH [3/n]: Add __snseconds_t and __SNSECONDS_T_TYPE H.J. Lu
2012-03-16 7:52 ` Paul Eggert
2012-03-16 8:19 ` x32 and width of blksize_t, suseconds_t Paul Eggert
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2012-03-16 16:14 ` H.J. Lu
2012-03-16 15:49 ` PATCH [3/n]: Add __snseconds_t and __SNSECONDS_T_TYPE H.J. Lu
2012-03-16 18:54 ` Paul Eggert
2012-03-16 19:16 ` H.J. Lu
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