svn commit: r303342 - in head: include lib/libc/stdlib

[Pedro Giffuni]

On 07/26/16 15:14, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 3:11 PM, Ed Schouten <ed at freebsd.org
> <mailto:ed at freebsd.org>> wrote:
>
>     Author: ed
>     Date: Tue Jul 26 20:11:29 2016
>     New Revision: 303342
>     URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/303342
>
>     Log:
>       Fix typing of srandom() and initstate().
>
>       POSIX requires that these functions have an unsigned int for their
>     first
>       argument; not an unsigned long.
>
>       My reasoning is that we can safely change these functions without
>       breaking the ABI. As far as I know, our supported architectures either
>       use registers for passing function arguments that are at least as
>     big as
>       long (e.g., amd64), or int and long are of the same size (e.g., i386).
>
>
> Is a __FreeBSD_version bump planned?  (Third-party software might want
> to be warning-clean.)
>

Third party software should already follow standards ;).

Pedro.