Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: [patches] [PATCH] [21/22] x86_64: Extend bzImage protocol for relocatable bzImage | | From | Rusty Russell <> | | Date | Tue, 01 May 2007 13:59:41 +1000 |
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On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 20:45 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Rusty Russell wrote: > > > > It'd be nicer if there were a "struct boot_params" declaration, but we > > can't have everything. > > It's in my patchset-under-development.
Ah ha: excellent!
> > +typedef unsigned long long u64; > > typedef uint32_t u32; > > typedef uint16_t u16; > > typedef uint8_t u8; > > Why not uint64_t to go along with all the other defines?
Because then it's a PITA to printf(): x86-64 has uint64_t as "unsigned long". So the lguest64 guys will add all kinds of horrible casts. This has the same effect, but ironically is more portable.
Rusty.
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