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Subject: Re: [PATCH] uapi: Make __{u,s}64 match {u,}int64_t in userspace
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Zack Weinberg <zack@owlfolio.org> wrote:

> I could be persuaded otherwise with an example of a program for which
> changing __s64 from 'long long' to 'long' would break *binary* backward
> compatibility, or similarly for __u64.

C++ could break.

David