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Re: CVS commit: src



On Wed Jan 07 2009 at 20:46:19 +1100, matthew green wrote:
> 
>    On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 11:16:46AM +0000, Luke Mewburn wrote:
>     > Modified Files:
>     >         src/include: unistd.h
>     >         src/lib/libc/gen: getlogin.c
>     >         src/lib/libc/sys: getlogin.2
>     > 
>     > Log Message:
>     > Change the second argument of getlogin_r() from int to size_t, per 
> POSIX.
>    
>    Doesn't that break binary compat on 64-bit platforms?
> 
> 
> not as far as i could tell.  *phew*

Why is that?  Because all our 64bit archs pass a second integer argument
in a single register?


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