On 05/21/10 04:18, Darren J Moffat wrote: > On 20/05/2010 21:37, Don Cragun wrote: >> I'm not disagreeing with the move to 32 bytes. I just believe that the >> ARC needs to make it clear that doing so is a conscious decision to break >> the ABIs and that it does not set a precedent for other ABI breakage. If >> I remember correctly, an opinion needs to be written to do that even if >> this is just a fast track case. > > No opinion is needed, this case alone is enough. >
On this narrow point, I disagree, and agree instead with Don. I can see no way that changing a #define used in a standard interface is in any way an "obvious" or "uncontroversial" change, and thus this easily falls outside of the realm of a proper fast-track. I have no problem with the change itself (even if it does perhaps burn away UNIX branding), but I do think that at least a quick vote and a short opinion stating that are necessary for the record. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W <carls...@workingcode.com> _______________________________________________ opensolaris-arc mailing list opensolaris-arc@opensolaris.org
