History log of /freebsd-current/sys/sys/stddef.h
Revision Date Author Comments
# 95ee2897 16-Aug-2023 Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>

sys: Remove $FreeBSD$: two-line .h pattern

Remove /^\s*\*\n \*\s+\$FreeBSD\$$\n/


# 4d846d26 10-May-2023 Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>

spdx: The BSD-2-Clause-FreeBSD identifier is obsolete, drop -FreeBSD

The SPDX folks have obsoleted the BSD-2-Clause-FreeBSD identifier. Catch
up to that fact and revert to their recommended match of BSD-2-Clause.

Discussed with: pfg
MFC After: 3 days
Sponsored by: Netflix


# 9bb8a409 14-Jun-2021 Alex Richardson <arichardson@FreeBSD.org>

Reduce code duplication in machine/_types.h

Many of these typedefs are the same across all architectures or can
be set based on an architecture-independent compiler-provided macro
(e.g. __SIZEOF_SIZE_T__). These macros have been available since GCC 4.6
and Clang sometime before 3.0 (godbolt.org does not have any older clang
versions installed).

I originally considered using the compiler-provided `__FOO_TYPE__` directly.
However, in order to do so we have to check that those match the previous
typedef exactly (not just that they have the same size) since any change
would be an ABI break. For example, changing `long` to `long long` results
in different C++ name mangling. Additionally, Clang and GCC disagree on
the underlying type for some of (u)int*_fast_t types, so this change
only moves the definitions that are identical across all architectures
and does not touch those types.

This de-deduplication will allow us to have a smaller diff downstream in
CheriBSD: we only have to only change the (u)intptr_t definition in
sys/_types.h in CheriBSD instead of having to change machine/_types.h for
all CHERI-enabled architectures (currently RISC-V, AArch64 and MIPS).

Reviewed By: imp, kib
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D29895


# c4e20cad 27-Nov-2017 Pedro F. Giffuni <pfg@FreeBSD.org>

sys/sys: further adoption of SPDX licensing ID tags.

Mainly focus on files that use BSD 2-Clause license, however the tool I
was using misidentified many licenses so this was mostly a manual - error
prone - task.

The Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) group provides a specification
to make it easier for automated tools to detect and summarize well known
opensource licenses. We are gradually adopting the specification, noting
that the tags are considered only advisory and do not, in any way,
superceed or replace the license texts.


# d9259fbc 04-May-2011 David E. O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org>

Guard ptrdiff_t.


# a7d5f7eb 19-Oct-2010 Jamie Gritton <jamie@FreeBSD.org>

A new jail(8) with a configuration file, to replace the work currently done
by /etc/rc.d/jail.


# d7f03759 19-Oct-2008 Ulf Lilleengen <lulf@FreeBSD.org>

- Import the HEAD csup code which is the basis for the cvsmode work.


# 12eb46c8 07-Dec-2003 Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@FreeBSD.org>

Change the definition of NULL on ia64 (for LP64 compilations) from
an int constant to a long constant. This change improves consistency
in the following two ways:
1. The first 8 arguments are always passed in registers on ia64, which
by virtue of the generated code implicitly widens ints to longs and
allows the use of an 32-bit integral type for 64-bit arguments.
Subsequent arguments are passed onto the memory stack, which does
not exhibit the same behaviour and consequently do not allow this.
In practice this means that variadic functions taking pointers
and given NULL (without cast) work as long as the NULL is passed
in one of the first 8 arguments. A SIGSEGV is more likely the
result if such would be done for stack-based arguments. This is
due to the fact that the upper 4 bytes remain undefined.
2. All 64-bit platforms that FreeBSD supports, with the obvious
exception of ia64, allow 32-bit integral types (specifically NULL)
when 64-bit pointers are expected in variadic functions by way of
how the compiler generates code. As such, code that works correctly
(whether rightfully so or not) on any platform other than ia64, may
fail on ia64.

To more easily allow tweaking of the definition of NULL, this commit
removes the 12 definitions in the various headers and puts it in a
new header that can be included whenever NULL is to be made visible.

This commit fixes GNOME, emacs, xemacs and a whole bunch of ports
that I don't particularly care about at this time...


# 96c65f25 13-Nov-2002 Maxime Henrion <mux@FreeBSD.org>

Add the sys/stddef.h header, so that we can have ptrdiff_t
definition in the kernel. It also includes the offsetof()
definition which, according to bde@ should be here and not
in sys/types.h, and the definition of NULL so that we're
closer to make it closer to standard C.

Reviewed by: mike