re: CVS commit: src

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

   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?
   

well, some older code might mask out the top bits, but, yeah.


.mrg.