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

From
Alejandro Colomar <hidden>
Date
2022-06-17 12:13:18
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Reply to
Cyril Hrubis, 2021-12-08
Hi Cyril,

On 12/8/21 16:33, Cyril Hrubis wrote:
Hi!
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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.
Thinking of this again we can detect C++ as well so it can be safely
enabled just for C with:

#if !defined(__KERNEL__) && !defined(__cplusplus) && __BITSPERLONG == 64
# include <asm-generic/int-l64.h>
#else
# include <asm-generic/int-ll64.h>
#endif
I'm very interested in seeing this merged, as that would allow simplifying the man-pages by removing unnecessary kernel details such as u64[1].  How is the state of this patch?

Cheers,

Alex


[1]: <https://lore.kernel.org/linux-man/20210423230609.13519-1-alx.manpages@gmail.com/T/#u (local)>

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