Mikhail Gusarov <dottedmag_at_dottedmag.net> writes:
> Twas brillig at 09:11:19 10.03.2010 UTC+01 when simon_at_josefsson.org did gyre and gimble:
>
> SJ> Agreed. Libssh2 is broken here, the Right Thing is to always use
> SJ> size_t for string lengths. This change will break the ABI if we
> SJ> don't rename all the functions though...
>
> It will break ABI only for architectures where size_t != unsigned long, right?
Yes... However I think libssh2 is deployed on many such systems already
that we need to care about them.
We _could_ bump the ABI only on the affected platforms, but IMHO
maintaining that will be a pain and the risk for build mistakes are
rather high.
/Simon
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Received on 2010-03-10