RFC: Changing daddr_t to 64 bits

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Oct 26 10:57, Corinna Vinschen via Newlib wrote:
> On Oct 25 16:43, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > The type daddr_t is defined to be long but per some IBM documentation, it
> > is "used for disk addresses, except in i-nodes on disk. The
> > */usr/include/sys/filsys.h* file format describes the format of disk
> > addresses used in i-nodes."
> > 
> > RTEMS has this in our BSD derived code and 32-bits is too small for disk
> > addresses. We need it to be 64-bits at least for us.
> > 
> > Can I change it to be 64-bits for all targets?
> 
> I don't think so.  The existing non-RTEMS definitions should stay
> untouched for backward compat.  Noticable is phoenix, which defines
> __daddr_t explicitely as __uint32_t.
> 
> AFAICS, RTEMS defines __daddr_t not at all.  Just define __daddr_t in
> newlib/libc/sys/linux/sys/types.h should fix this up for you.
                  ^^^^^

Probably better newlib/libc/sys/rtems/include/sys/types.h


Sorry,
Corinna