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SubjectRe: Migrating to larger numbers
Ulrich Drepper wrote:
>
> 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.
>

Meaning you can't compile glibc code if you C compiler doesn't have a
64-bit integral type.

-hpa

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