Re: next test release (5th)

[Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk at suse dot de>]

On Fri, Sep 29, Ulrich Drepper wrote:

> Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> writes:
> 
> > --- libc/nscd/nscd_gethst_r.c.jj	Wed May  3 10:19:59 2000
> > +++ libc/nscd/nscd_gethst_r.c	Fri Sep 29 11:30:57 2000
> > @@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ nscd_gethst_r (const char *key, size_t k
> >    if (hst_resp.found == 1)
> >      {
> >        struct iovec vec[4];
> > -      size_t *aliases_len;
> > +      nscd_size_t *aliases_len;
> >        char *cp = buffer;
> >        uintptr_t align1;
> >        uintptr_t align2;
> 
> This is perfectly fine.  There is no real need for using size_t.  I
> would perhaps just using uint32_t and int32_t instead of introducing
> another type.  I'll probably make this change in your patch.
> Otherwise people will ask why such a named type is necessry.

It is necessary to be binary compatible on Alpha. Or we need to
bump the nscd version number.

  Thorsten

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