Messages in this thread |  | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: get_user() | Date | 20 Oct 1996 13:52:49 GMT |
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Followup to: <Pine.A32.3.91.961020141145.51096D-100000@aixrs1.hrz.uni-essen.de> By author: Kai Schulte <sp0005@aixrs1.hrz.uni-essen.de> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Or are there other aspects that are more important? >
Yes; get_fs_* and put_fs_* relies on *basic* types (byte, shortword, longword, quadword), whereas, say off_t could be a longword on one architecture and a quadword on the other -- in fact, it could even change in a new version of Linux!
-hpa
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