Looking closer at illumos.org/issues/16523

→ BUG 16523: int8_t should explicitly be signed char (New)

Now, I haven't hit any problems with applications by making int8_t be explicitly 'signed char', and it does solve a bunch of issues

It does, however, rather spectacularly break the gate build

yeh I've been running with a variant of that for over a year

Haven't had time to look at them all yet, but I get a bunch of signedness errors that seem off

error: pointer targets in passing argument 2 of 'strncpy' differ in signedness [-Werror=pointer-sign]

Where it's storing a string in an int8_t[] and pssing it to something that expects a char

Was using int8_t to store characters a pattern at some point? My guess would be that using char where char is actually meant would fix most of these.

richlowe will have had a load of experience in the arm port too, from the other side where char is unsigned.

So it's likely some of the fixes are already in that branch

Yeah, on quick inspection it looks like they're covered. Upstreaming would be nice, although I'm not entirely sure of the precise attribution for any given hunk in the diffs.

I think what I may do is pick what's necessary to build the next Tribblix release, which will have the modified header, and use that as a testbed

as andy said, I fixed a bunch of int8-as-char stuff

an awful lot in wifi drivers as I recall

it smelled like someone got told "used fixed size integers" and not why, and overreacted.

ptribble: attribution is `git blame`, if it blames to the first commit that credits everyone, credit everyone

and as the readme says, talk to me before upstreaming anything.

(I should update that to say "me, or anyone equivalent to me")

So illumos-discuss is now a single person's stream of consciousness?

you're the 2nd person to have mentioned that today

danmcd: I dunno if this is in your ballpark, since I don't think it's _inappropriate_

or at least, not with the connotations that word has

I don't actually know how to classify it at all.

the bits about Windows/Crowdstrike/etc seem off-topic, not offensive

It feels like spamming a list. I see no apparent direction or purpose to these series of messages.

It might feel different if anyone else was responding to him, but it seems to be him just responding to himself over and over and over

if it's the same person that was spamming a month or so ago, that was the reason I unsubbed

From illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss he looks like he's been most of the list traffic since May or so

then yeah, danmcd's the person you want I think

I'm not sure he's around just now

yeah, I'm not either, that's just the extent to which I remember things

it's not yet at a level where it's urgent something be done, just getting noticable

I'm actually dealing with it

I apologise for the noise.

It's definitely off-topic.

jclulow: sorry, was hoping to save you

It's all good

anyone here using illumos on the new(ish) intel cpus with big.LITTLE?