On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 01:52:43PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> Neal H Walfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I find it incredibly disturbing that hurd/hurd_types.defs defines off_t
> > and size_t to a type int. What bothers me even more is that MiG does
> > not define a type long. What is the correct approach to fix this?
>
> Lol. We can't. :)
So much for Mach/MIG. ;-)
> A MiG int is 32 bits, always and everywhere, on every single
> implementation, no matter what the native format is. This is
> absolutely necessary to achieve network transparency.
>
> At some point we may well want a longer off_t. (Though not
> necessarily; we could just as easily change the interfaces to take two
> ints instead of one.) But remember here that MiG definitions are
> establish network interfaces, with fixed bit widths, and not merely
> local machine things.
Um, well, we might want to update this. Or something. Or just drop the
network part. Just out of curiosity: Mach did work on Alpha, no? How did
they do this 32/64 bit stuff there?
Erik.
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