Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 07 Jun 1999 14:50:02 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Migrating to larger numbers |
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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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