uid_t/gid_t should be UINT on sparcv9, not SLONG about jnr-ffi

[headius]

I suppose we can just change it? Perhaps you can try it and make sure tests all pass? I don't have access to a sparcv9 machine.

[headius]

Oh, and if it works...PR please :-)

[ahilananantha]

I don't have access to any sparcv9 machines either. I just stumbled upon this by accidental code inspection. I was trying to figure out what the largest portably safe target Java type for a uid was. I was pretty sure it was 32 bit integer and our existing code assumes that. But then I saw this outlier in the jnr-ffi code where it was 64 bit, was skeptical about it, and then started googling. So I'm entirely unaffected by this bug.

Finding a sparcv9 at this point would range between time consuming or impossible depending on who you know. Even for Oracle employee, access is restricted to people in that specific organization. Maybe this is too cavalier but... if this code was never tested on sparcv9 when it was checked in maybe it's no worse to not test the fix? :-)

[ahilananantha]

Some friendly folks in the Solaris unit have pointed out the definition of uid_t and gid_t isn't processor specific. Instead it's a Solaris thing. So there's only one correct "configuration" for all the Solaris ports. And you already have it configured correctly on Solaris x86 and Solaris x86_64:

$ grep uid_t i386/solaris/TypeAliases.java
m.put(TypeAlias.uid_t, NativeType.UINT);
$ grep uid_t x86_64/solaris/TypeAliases.java
m.put(TypeAlias.uid_t, NativeType.UINT);
$ grep gid_t i386/solaris/TypeAliases.java
m.put(TypeAlias.gid_t, NativeType.UINT);
$ grep gid_t x86_64/solaris/TypeAliases.java
m.put(TypeAlias.gid_t, NativeType.UINT);

They've suggested testing that it's correctly configured on Solaris x86. Would that be convincing enough to allow copying that setting to the SPARC files? Also... how do we test something like this?

[ahilananantha]

And it seems you also have "sparc" like for v8 and earlier that in theory needs the same fix. No chance of finding one of those. :-P