Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/5] xen: add ssize_t

[Jean Guyader <jean.guyader@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 29 June 2012 09:05, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> On 28.06.12 at 18:26, Jean Guyader <jean.guyader@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> If this is really needed (which I doubt, looking at the two users
> and their - respectively - sole callers), then for x86 please put
> the definitions alongside the size_t ones.
>
> Until the need for the type is shown, this is a NAK from me.
>

The ssize_t can't be replaced with a size_t because the functions that use it
can return negative number and size_t is unsigned.

ssize_t could be replaced by a long long which will work for all the
case 32 and 64b.

Jean

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