Re: Conflict between system and compiler types

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Mon, Feb 04, 2019 at 05:52:28AM +0000, David Holland wrote:
> They are wrong -- the system ABI is the OS's responsibility
> (including, possibly, compat obligations that the compiler folks don't
> know about and shouldn't have to care about) because it's the OS that
> provides the libraries that the definitions in the system ABI headers
> are supposed to match.

True, but in this case the compiler has been instructed to compile for
a different ABI, and we may well consider to have our own provided types
being flexible to cope (if it comes at basically no cost).

Martin