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

[Pavel Roskin]

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).

I was trying to fix an inconsistency of the userspace, where size_t  
can be unsigned int or unsigned long.  Perhaps the plan was too  
ambitious.

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin