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Re: [PATCH] Fix binary compatibility of bits/types.h

From: Steve Munroe <sjmunroe at us dot ibm dot com>
To: Roland McGrath <roland at redhat dot com>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>, Glibc hackers <libc-hacker at sources dot redhat dot com>, Paul Mackerras <paulus at samba dot org>
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 16:28:18 -0500
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix binary compatibility of bits/types.h

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++).

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