Re: [Libguestfs] [libnbd PATCH 2/4] generator: Add RUInt64 for 64-bit counters without error
On Tue, Sep 06, 2022 at 04:08:20AM -0500, Eric Blake wrote:
If we later find ourselves needing an actual 64-bit unsigned value,
unrelated to counters, we can add RCounter at that point and
repurpose RUInt64 to the new purpose. We've done that sort of enum
splitting before; the enum names are less important that the
underlying abstract type that then has to be ported to all the
language bindings for the semantics it will be representing.
Right - the generator can change as much as we like. What matters is
the C API/ABI. Less so the OCaml API: there's no guarantee for that,
and we've changed that a bit over time, we just not to break it for no
good reason.
Rich.
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