Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Migrating to larger numbers | From | Ulrich Drepper <> | Date | 07 Jun 1999 14:40:52 -0700 |
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hpa@transmeta.com (H. Peter Anvin) writes:
> Guess what? We *ALREADY* depend on these -- dev_t in libc6 is a > 64-bit number.
No, you don't depend on it. Just like now the numbers which are coming up from the kernel are zero-extended. It's just that glibc can cope with whatever decision the kernel people finally can come up.
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