Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 11 Oct 2001 09:52:03 -0500 | From | Bob McElrath <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.4.10-ac11 parport_pc.c bugfix |
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Thomas Hood [jdthood@mail.com] wrote: > I guess the question is: Which way is more portable? Is > "(unsigned long)-1" liable to turn out as something other than > ~0U? > > If your way of expressing it is more portable then we should > make the change ... BOTH in pnp_bios.c and in parport_pc.c . > > Opinions?
unsigned long is 64-bits on 64-bit archs, and so (unsigned long)-1 will be different than on intel...
I think that's ~0UL?
Maybe this is why I can't get pnp stuff to work on my alpha?
Cheers, -- Bob
Bob McElrath (rsmcelrath@students.wisc.edu) Univ. of Wisconsin at Madison, Department of Physics [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] |  |