Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 29 Jan 2016 13:03:39 +0100 | Subject | Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the aio tree | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> |
| |
On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 12:30 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote: >> Background: new aio code is adding __get_user() calls referencing 64 >> bit quantities (__u64 and __s64). > > There's lots more architectures which do not support 64-bit get_user() > _or_ __get_user(): avr32, blackfin, metag for example, and m68k which > has this interesting thing "/* case 8: disabled because gcc-4.1 has a > broken typeof \" in its *get_user() implementation.
And if you enable it again, you get lots of "warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size", like you mentioned.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
-- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org
In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds
| |