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Re: [RFC] IPC64 with glibc-2.2 and linux-2.4
- To: Franz Sirl <Franz dot Sirl-kernel at lauterbach dot com>
- Subject: Re: [RFC] IPC64 with glibc-2.2 and linux-2.4
- From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
- Date: 25 Sep 2000 08:25:54 -0700
- Cc: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com, linuxppc-dev at lists dot linuxppc dot org
- References: <Franz Sirl's message of "Sun, 24 Sep 2000 21:50:44 +0200"><00092421504403.01070@enzo.bigblue.local><5.0.0.19.2.20000925110119.01fe1df0@mail.lauterbach.com>
- Reply-To: drepper at cygnus dot com (Ulrich Drepper)
Franz Sirl <Franz.Sirl-kernel@lauterbach.com> writes:
> What about 'seq'? Can I safely bump it to 32bit for userspace in the final
> patch? I see no need for the kernel and userspace being different here, but
> all other archs are limiting it to 16bit, so there may be a reason...
You should avoid changing the size of the struct. I haven't done the
math on this.
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