svn commit: r300999 - in head: include lib/libc/db/man

[Ed Schouten]

2016-05-30 19:55 GMT+02:00 Pedro Giffuni <pfg at freebsd.org>:
> IMHO, just before a new release is the perfect time to break the ABI, and
> POSIX
> is a good reason to do it.

I thought about it a bit more and switching this over to size_t will
only cause breakage on 64-bit big endian platforms. On 32-bit systems
this would have no effect. On 64-bit little endian systems, we'd still
load the bottom four bytes, which is all right. We could use symbol
versioning to deal with this, but I don't think it's worth the effort.

I've sent out a code review to both of you: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D6660

If anyone wants to share their thoughts on the proposed change, feel
free to leave a comment. I'll hold off for a couple of days before
submitting.

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Ed Schouten <ed at nuxi.nl>
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