Re: RFD: x32 ABI system call numbers

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Mon Aug 29 2011 - 15:04:54 EST


On 08/29/2011 12:01 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>
> Which will break all this non-portable 32-bit-only source code x32 was invented
> for in the first place?
> Someone will pass a time_t or off_t and an innocent pointer to a custom
> printf-alike function to format it like "%u %s" and it will go bang...
>

Yes, this is the downside...

-hpa

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