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Date:      Tue, 22 Oct 2002 11:13:00 +0900 (JST)
From:      Kimura Fuyuki <fuyuki@hadaly.org>
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   kern/44365: introduce ulong and unchar types
Message-ID:  <20021022021300.2CBA95679@hadaly.dyndns.org>

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>Number:         44365
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       introduce ulong and unchar types
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Oct 21 19:20:01 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Kimura Fuyuki
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD hadaly.dyndns.org 4.7-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE #1: Wed Oct 9 13:04:34 JST 2002 root@hadaly.dyndns.org:/sack/tmp/obj/pub/src/sys/NS i386


	
>Description:
Introduce ulong and unchar into sys/types.h. A bit helpful for
portability and consistency, not so harmful (I guess), and already
defined in Net&OpenBSD.

But be careful, some header files under /sys also contain a typedef
for ulong.

P.S I don't know why unchar, not uchar.
	
>How-To-Repeat:
	
>Fix:
Index: types.h
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/sys/types.h,v
retrieving revision 1.77
diff -u -r1.77 types.h
--- types.h	21 Oct 2002 20:35:29 -0000	1.77
+++ types.h	22 Oct 2002 01:58:51 -0000
@@ -53,8 +53,10 @@
 typedef	unsigned short	u_short;
 typedef	unsigned int	u_int;
 typedef	unsigned long	u_long;
+typedef	unsigned char	unchar;		/* Sys V compatibility */
 typedef	unsigned short	ushort;		/* Sys V compatibility */
 typedef	unsigned int	uint;		/* Sys V compatibility */
+typedef	unsigned long	ulong;		/* Sys V compatibility */
 #endif
 
 /*

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