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Message-ID: <20121118204602.GV20323@brightrain.aerifal.cx>
Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 15:46:02 -0500
From: Rich Felker <dalias@...ifal.cx>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: sysinfo padding question
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 08:25:48PM +0000, Justin Cormack wrote:
> Why is the padding for sysinfo for the kernel different from the libc
> one for Musl?
>
> /usr/include/linux/kernel.h has char
> _f[20-2*sizeof(long)-sizeof(int)]; /* Padding: libc5 uses this.. */
> /usr/include/sys/sysinfo.h has char __reserved[256];
>
> glibc just includes the kernel header from sys/sysinfo.h so both these
> structs are the same size there, so not sure I see any rationale.
I don't think there was any particular rationale; I just did it to
make sure there's plenty of space for future expansion. Changing it to
match should be fine unless anybody objects. Note however that the
glibc definition gives no room to expand on 64-bit.
Rich
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