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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] fix tool pygrub build on x64



Ok,
        To better followup my findings you will see that size_t is of type
__kernel_size_t. On i386 in "asm-i386/posix_types.h" you have:
typedef unsigned int    __kernel_size_t;

Where as on x86-64 you in "asm-x86_64/posix_types.h" you have:

typedef unsigned long   __kernel_size_t;

I must have typed "unsigned int" by accident. Sorry. But the fix is
still valid.

Where as in 
On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 23:13 +0200, Vincent Hanquez wrote:
> On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 02:15:33PM -0500, Jerone Young wrote:
> > This fixes tool pygrub to build on x86-64 systems. Currently gcc is
> > saying there are incompatible pointer type passed into function
> > ext2fs_file_read. The address of variable n is used in ext2fs_file_read
> > which takes an "unsigned int *" as the 4th variable. "n" is currently
> > declared as an "size_t" which is an "int". This declares n as an
> > "unsigned int" instead of using type "size_t".
> 
> size_t is "unsigned long" not "int"
> 
-- 
Jerone Young
IBM Linux Technology Center
jyoung5@xxxxxxxxxx
512-838-1157 (T/L: 678-1157)


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