Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] add new DMA_ADDR_T_SIZE define | From | Albert Cahalan <> | Date | 23 Feb 2003 02:20:56 -0500 |
| |
On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 02:00, David S. Miller wrote: > From: Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sourceforge.net> > Date: 23 Feb 2003 02:02:01 -0500 > > Casts are ugly and they hide bugs. There is a fix > for this problem: make u64 be "unsigned long long" > for every arch. That works for both 32-bit and 64-bit > systems. Likewise, choose "unsigned" for u32 even > if an "unsigned long" would work for a given arch. > > That merely hides the lack of user defined printf types > in gcc, it doesn't make the real problem go away. > What you suggest is merely a bandaid.
Sure. It's an obviously useful bandaid that works with gcc 2.91, 2.92, 2.95, 2.96, 3.0, 3.2, 3.3, etc.
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |