RE: [PATCH v3] uapi: Make __{u,s}64 match {u,}int64_t in userspace

[David Laight]

From: Cyril Hrubis 
> Sent: 21 June 2022 13:04
> 
> This changes the __u64 and __s64 in userspace on 64bit platforms from
> long long (unsigned) int to just long (unsigned) int in order to match
> the uint64_t and int64_t size in userspace for C code.
> 
> We cannot make the change for C++ since that would be non-backwards
> compatible change and may cause possible regressions and even
> compilation failures, e.g. overloaded function may no longer find a
> correct match.

Isn't is enough just to mention C++ name mangling?

	David

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