At 12:48 PM 2/18/2004, Ben Reser wrote: >On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 01:15:12PM -0600, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: >> I am against changing the default size or alignment of any data type >> in >> APR_0_9_BRANCH. If this [has] happened we break all binary compat. > >Umm we've been careful to avoid doing exactly that. The point here >isn't to change size of the type. It's to fix it at compile time rather >than at build time. The last patch sent most definitely does that >without altering size of anytime and additionally without altering the >type which would change the name mangling in C++.
Excellent - I will review on a few different unix platforms w.r.t. apr 9.4 v.s. head. >> Good fix for APR 1.0 along with all the other problematic design >> decisions >> we made in 0.9's twisty and winding road. +1 for 1.0 > >There are potentially cleaner ways to fix this in 1.0. This is a >temporary work around for a problem. Ack.