Messages in this thread | | | From | David Howells <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] BDI: Provide backing device capability information | Date | Mon, 07 Mar 2005 11:51:54 +0000 |
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Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
> > Any particular reason? It's mixed in with other unsigned longs and pointers > > after all... > > Just that it's the natural wordsize of the machine, and uses less storage.
Making it unsigned long on a 32-bit machine will make no difference. Making it unsigned int on a 64-bit machine will waste four bytes.
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