Re: [PATCH 1/7]: Fix sparc64 setjmp implementation.

[Robert Millan]

On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 12:56:43AM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> Quoting David Miller <address@hidden>:
>
>>> I was considering making grub_size_t long and grub_ssize_t unsigned
>>> long.  I remember that it required many changes in string formats, so I
>>> didn't feel it would be justified.  But we could try it again.
>>
>> You should use whatever is the appropriate size_t/ssize_t type on
>> the given platform+ABI, and that way GRUB could use "%Zd" and/or
>> "%zd" throughout.  Was that the plan?
>
> No, the plan was to use long.  We don't support architectures where long 
> and size_t have different sizes.  I'm not aware of such architectures.  I 
> don't care about win64, as it would need some very special handling 
> (perhaps redefinition of long).

Maybe Christian can shred some light on this ;-)

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