Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 15 Nov 1998 09:54:28 +0000 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: 2.1.126 still no sparc64 autofs |
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On Sat, Nov 14, 1998 at 01:45:16PM -0500, Rich Sahlender wrote: > H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > Why is the "long" a different size in kernel and user space? That > > seems buggy. It's an easy thing to fix, but it seems like the Wrong > > Thing[TM]. > > I tend to agree it's buggy. I would expect the long to generate a 32 > bit int even in the 64 bit kernel space unless you specifically ask > for a 64 bit long .ie. suns 'long long'. This would keep things > downward/backward compatible.
A big problem is that there are a number of places in the kernel that assume sizeof(long) == sizeof(void *). Mostly to do with page tables and I/O address remapping, a few to do with overloading struct elements by kludgy casts.
Yucky I know, but there you go.
-- Jamie
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