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Re: [PATCH] Change s390 ssize_t back to long int

From: "Martin Schwidefsky" <schwidefsky at de dot ibm dot com>
To: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
Cc: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>, Glibc hackers <libc-hacker at sources dot redhat dot com>
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 11:36:09 +0200
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Change s390 ssize_t back to long int

Hi Ulrich,

> I've applied the patch now.  It should be clear that this is a break of
> the ABI from early glibc versions.
Yes, Jakub discussed this with me and we came to the conclusion that this
is acceptable. We only break if someone uses gcc 3.x with the old ssize_t
type of int to compile c++ code and mixes the binaries with code compiled
with gcc 3.x with the new ssize_t of long. The if here is that gcc 3.x
should only be used with a new libc which has a ssize_t of long.

blue skies,
   Martin

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