type problems in conform tests...

[Joseph S. Myers]

On Mon, 21 Apr 2014, David Miller wrote:

> So I started looking at the conformance test failures on sparc, and
> the one I'm looking at now requires that sa_flags in sigaction be
> of type 'int' but it's 'unsigned long' on sparc.
> 
> What are we supposed to do in these situations?  We can't change the
> type, so do I just ignore this test failure forever?

What I said for S/390 in 
<https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2014-03/msg00376.html> should apply 
equally here: you should be able to make the type int with an explicit 
padding field when required to keep the layout the same.

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Joseph S. Myers
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