[PATCH] Fix POSIX compliance: Make blkcnt_t and blksize_t signed on alpha

[Collin Funk]

Osama Abdelkader <osama.abdelkader@gmail.com> writes:

>> Thanks for the patch.
>> 
>> I had something similar written myself, but I wasn't sure if there was a
>> historical reason for this definition. And I do not have an alpha
>> machine to test on to make sure things work as expected after the
>> change.
>> 
>> CC'ing Richard Henderson who is listed as the system maintainer for
>> alpha in MAINTAINERS [1].
>> 
>> Collin
>> 
>> [1] https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/MAINTAINERS#Machine_maintainers
>
> Thanks Collin, I didn't know that sorry, feel free to drop it.

Let's not drop it yet. I never sent my patch on list, so we can use
yours.

It would be good to make the change if possible to match POSIX
requirements. I am just not sure if the change is possible.

Hopefully someone who knows more about alpha will review.

Thanks,
Collin