On Wed, 2007-Jan-31 08:30:27 +0100, Pascal Hofstee wrote: >In a recent attempt in trying to clean up some compiler warnings in a >GNUstep related project i came upon a case where the FreeBSD datatypes >seemed to disagree with the Linux ones. Though this in itself is not >unusual i do wonder if in this case the Linux definition isn't the more >proper one. > >The definition in question is inside <sys/shm.h> and involves >struct shmid_ds.shm_segsz which seems to be defined as "int" whereas >Linux defines this as "size_t".
Whilst I agree that the Linux defn is the more sensible one, System V IPC and common sense are not commonly found together. Tradionally the definition was "int". It appears that the definition changed from "int" to "size_t" in issue 5 of the Open Group base definition but FreeBSD has not caught up with this. I'm not sure what plans there are to change this. You could try putting together a patch to address this and submitting it as a PR (this means addressing all references to shm_segsz in the base system, not just <sys/shm.h>). -- Peter Jeremy
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