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Date:      Wed, 22 May 2002 10:45:52 -0400
From:      Jake Burkholder <jake@locore.ca>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/elf2aout elf2aout.c
Message-ID:  <20020522104552.F62759@locore.ca>
In-Reply-To: <20020522211222.X9440-100000@gamplex.bde.org>; from bde@zeta.org.au on Wed, May 22, 2002 at 09:38:53PM %2B1000
References:  <20020520144919.D62759@locore.ca> <20020522211222.X9440-100000@gamplex.bde.org>

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Apparently, On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 09:38:53PM +1000,
	Bruce Evans said words to the effect of;

> On Mon, 20 May 2002, Jake Burkholder wrote:
> 
> > Apparently, On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 08:24:31PM +0300,
> > 	Ruslan Ermilov said words to the effect of;
> >
> > > On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 07:17:39PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > > > On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 12:15:14PM -0400, Jake Burkholder wrote:
> > > > > Apparently, On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 12:56:40AM -0700,
> > > > > 	Ruslan Ermilov said words to the effect of;
> > > > >
> > > > > > ru          2002/05/20 00:56:40 PDT
> > > > > >
> > > > > >   Modified files:
> > > > > >     usr.bin/elf2aout     elf2aout.c
> > > > > >   Log:
> > > > > >   s/u_int/u_int32_t/
> > > > >
> > > > > I would have preferred you to not commit this, it does nothing.
> > > > >
> > > > It makes code more MI, as u_int is not guaranteed to be 32 bit.
> > > > This also makes it explicit that we're dealing with the elf32
> > > > here, not elf64.
> > > >
> > > These would even better be declared using the Elf32_* types.
> > > Could you please fix this?
> >
> > Umm, its an a.out header.  u_int{,32_t} is correct.
> 
> Actually, a fixed-width unsigned integer type with the same number of
> bits as `unsigned long' on the target machine is correct, since the
> type in a target struct exec is `unsigned long' (see <sys/imgact.h>).
> `unsigned long' for all targets is inconvenient for cross-compiling
> and gratuitously compiler-dependent, but it was almost as good as
> possible since it was the largest integer type. `u_int' for all targets
> would be just broken since it might be 16 bits.

The target machine is actually sparcv8.

> 
> Bruce

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