linux-kernel - Re: RFD: x32 ABI system call numbers

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Message-ID: <4E5BE29E.8050803@zytor.com>
Date:	Mon, 29 Aug 2011 12:03:58 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
CC:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@...il.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: RFD: x32 ABI system call numbers

On 08/29/2011 12:01 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> 
> Which will break all this non-portable 32-bit-only source code x32 was invented
> for in the first place?
> Someone will pass a time_t or off_t and an innocent pointer to a custom
> printf-alike function to format it like "%u %s" and it will go bang...
> 

Yes, this is the downside...

	-hpa

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