Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Jan 2003 10:00:20 +0100 | From | Ralf Baechle <> | Subject | Re: Minor header bug? MIPS (32-bit) nlink_t sign |
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On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 04:09:59PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > Stephen, I guess you have already figured this out with your recent > > 32-bit compatibility cleanup? > > I mainly did direct substitutions, but will have a look shortly and see > what I think. > > I assume we are being compatable with Irix? Ralf?
Dunno where the signed int for nlink_t did come from. The original idea was to avoid pointless creativity and choose data types to match IRIX rsp. the MIPS psABI. As using a signed type didn't create any visible problems so far this never got noticed until Jamie Lokier mailed me last week. I now changed the definition to unsigned long for the 32-bit kernel and unsigned int for the 64-bit kernel.
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