[LTP] [PATCH] uapi: Make __{u, s}64 match {u, }int64_t in userspace
Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
alx.manpages@gmail.com
Wed Nov 24 11:17:28 CET 2021
On 11/23/21 20:50, Florian Weimer via Libc-alpha wrote:
> * Cyril Hrubis:
>
>> As far as I can tell the userspace bits/types.h does exactly the same
>> check in order to define uint64_t and int64_t, i.e.:
>>
>> #if __WORDSIZE == 64
>> typedef signed long int __int64_t;
>> typedef unsigned long int __uint64_t;
>> #else
>> __extension__ typedef signed long long int __int64_t;
>> __extension__ typedef unsigned long long int __uint64_t;
>> #endif
>>
>> The macro __WORDSIZE is defined per architecture, and it looks like the
>> defintions in glibc sources in bits/wordsize.h match the uapi
>> asm/bitsperlong.h. But I may have missed something, the code in glibc is
>> not exactly easy to read.
>
> __WORDSIZE isn't exactly a standard libc macro.
The (to-be) standard libc macro would be LONG_WIDTH (although it has a
slightly different meaning, but it can be used for this, but then the
code also needs to expose <limits.h>), rigth?
Regards,
Alex
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Alejandro Colomar
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