From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7150 invoked by alias); 9 Sep 2003 21:28:31 -0000 Mailing-List: contact libc-hacker-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: libc-hacker-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 7110 invoked from network); 9 Sep 2003 21:28:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO e4.ny.us.ibm.com) (32.97.182.104) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 9 Sep 2003 21:28:29 -0000 Received: from northrelay04.pok.ibm.com (northrelay04.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.206]) by e4.ny.us.ibm.com (8.12.9/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h89LSM5d746798; Tue, 9 Sep 2003 17:28:22 -0400 Received: from d27ml105.rchland.ibm.com (d01av02.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.216]) by northrelay04.pok.ibm.com (8.12.9/NCO/VER6.6) with ESMTP id h89LSLlS217514; Tue, 9 Sep 2003 17:28:21 -0400 To: Roland McGrath Cc: Ulrich Drepper , Glibc hackers , Paul Mackerras MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix binary compatibility of bits/types.h Message-ID: From: Steve Munroe Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2003 21:28:00 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-SW-Source: 2003-09/txt/msg00036.txt.bz2 Roland McGrath writes: > > powerpc64-linux port did not exist at that time, so if we wanted to avoid > > changes to it now, we could copy the current CVS generic/bits/types.h > > to sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/bits/types.h, but I think it will > > be better to match other 64-bit arches. > I tend to agree, but the PPC32 and PPC64 port maintainers should say > something. PPC64 builds and runs make check without error with this change. Since for PPC64 long and long long are the same size this is what I would expect. If there are problems it will be higher in the foodchain (C++).