> However, I'm afraid to change signedness, if only because -1 is used in > error conditions, e.g. returned from elf_update(). Someone checking <0 > will be in for a bad time.
Yeah, that sounds like a wise fear. But maybe Elf64_Off is OK (and preferable even) for the cases that are not return values? > How about just int64_t? We already pull stdint.h for elf.h, so it seems > fine to include and use that in libelf.h too. Sold! We already have <sys/types.h> which covers <stdint.h> too. But we only ever had that for off_t/loff_t, so just change it to <stdint.h> and use int64_t.