Richard Earnshaw

> The ABI has always used the principle of ‘dumb format, smart tools’. I think I got this statement backwards, btw. It was “smart format, dumb tools”. The idea being...

The AAPCS already says `The member alignment of an element of a composite type is the alignment of that member after the application of any language alignment modifiers to that...

Related to this, what is the intended value of tab_width for C files, given the following specification: ``` [*] tab_width = 8 [*.c] indent_size = 2 indent_style = tab ```...

@monnier thanks for confirming. I've worked around the issue for now by explicitly setting tab_width whenever I have indent_style = tab and indent_size != 8, but I'd like to raise...

Since I was the original author of the HFA rules in the AAPCS, I'll chime in here. I've reviewed the text in the AAPCS and I agree that some additional...

That's not valid C (zero sized arrays are a GNU extension). Perhaps you mean the C11 flexible array `float b[];`? Either way, this is not an HFA because the size...

Both `a` and `b` are addressable in your example, and it is wrong to suggest that `b` has no size from an ABI perspective - it just isn't known statically....

Is it really safe to make this change? The current text says: 5.7.2 Addends and PC-bias A binary file may use REL or RELA relocations or a mixture of the...

I'm sure there are use cases where the bottom 16 bits might be known to be zero, then you're more likely to want something that's a multiple of 2^16. On...

The problem can clearly be seen here: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blame/6bb7bd760f9ed53c6fb0399e4921ffb5648cabeb/lib/ansible/modules/user.py#L1529 The code is adding a -K option to the FreeBSD pw command (there's a similar problem a few lines earlier where it...