Re: What happened to Elf64_Sxword?

[Peter Avalos <pavalos@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 11:11:23AM -0800, walt wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> 
> >
> > :That value is defined in FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and linux, but not
> > :in DFly.  Pkgsrc/devel/libelf won't build on DF because it's missing.
> > :
> > :Any particular reason to remove it?
> >
> >     I have no idea what Elf64_Sxword even is.  Some kind of structure or
> >     elf type?  Where is it supposed to be defined?
> 
> I guess you didn't remove it, then :o)  Here is sys/elf64.h from DFly:
> 

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>
> 
> I notice that Sword was redefined from int32 to uint64 in DFly -- i.e. Sword
> was redefined to the value of Sxword, which then leaves Sxword as redundant.
> 
> I'm no expert in any of this, but it seems like changing these 'industry
> standard' definitions would be a bit dicey, no?

This is inherited from FreeBSD.  It looks like they changed it around in their
1.13 version of elf64.h:

http://www.theshell.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/sys/elf64.h?cvsroot=freebsd#rev1.13

--Peter

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