[LTP] [PATCH] uapi: Make __{u, s}64 match {u, }int64_t in userspace

Zack Weinberg zack@owlfolio.org
Thu Dec 2 21:48:21 CET 2021


On Thu, Dec 2, 2021, at 10:01 AM, David Howells via Libc-alpha wrote:
> Zack Weinberg <zack@owlfolio.org> wrote:
>> I could be persuaded otherwise with an example of a program for which
>> changing __s64 from 'long long' to 'long' would break *binary* backward
>> compatibility, or similarly for __u64.
>
> C++ could break.

That's too hypothetical to be actionable.  I would like to see a _specific program_, and I would like it to be one that already exists in the world and was not written as a test case for this hypothetical ABI break.

zw


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