Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 04 Jan 2002 10:46:08 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: LSB1.1: /proc/cpuinfo |
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"Eric S. Raymond" wrote: > I'm not very worried about this. On modern machines int == long
I have been attempting to hammer this incorrect assumption out of people's brains for years, and have submitted many patches to Linus [1] over time, removing such crud from the kernel.
Such an assumption is blatantly non-portable, rendering your code fragile.
Jeff, longtime alpha owner
[1] and other userland maintainers
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