In article <20120318191308.ga10...@britannica.bec.de>, Joerg Sonnenberger <jo...@britannica.bec.de> wrote: >On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 05:30:31PM -0400, Christos Zoulas wrote: >> Module Name: src >> Committed By: christos >> Date: Sat Mar 17 21:30:30 UTC 2012 >> >> Modified Files: >> src/sys/sys: types.h >> >> Log Message: >> PR/44847: Jukka Ruohonen: blksize_t should be signed. >> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/basedefs/sys/types.h.html > >I dislike the change. What is the justification for requiring this to be >signed? There are good reasons for having it be unsigned, e.g. getting >more efficient code by default.
va_blocksize is signed (long) and most of the 360+ userland occurances assume it is signed. christos
