[swift-dev] importer questions

[Dmitri Gribenko]

On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 9:22 PM, Drew Crawford via swift-dev
<swift-dev at swift.org> wrote:
> I'm porting a codebase to Linux.  As part of this work, I have a large class
> of problems of the form "Darwin defines this constant to be Int32 but Glibc
> defines it to be Int16".
>
> Are these considered bugs, from Swift POV?

It depends on the API.  Could you give some examples?

> If they are bugs, should they be resolved in favor of making Glibc follow
> the Darwin types?

Blanket rules like that don't make sense to me, since the correct
import could be neither Int32, nor Int16, but a plain Int.  And there
are other cases that we won't even imagine before we have a list of
problematic APIs in front of us.

> If they are bugs, perhaps someone could link me to the place where I can
> override the header import, so I can fix these directly?

So far, we have been fixing suboptimal API imports in the overlays.

Dmitri

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