Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 1 Nov 2002 04:33:04 +0000 | From | John Levon <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [8/7] oprofile - dcookies need to use u32 |
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On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 05:31:28PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> That would be a great way to do this portably. > > I suspect oprofile won't be the only situation where this value > would be useful, perhaps /proc/sys/kernel/pointer_size?
The problem is this would trivially break cross-compilation. Would it not be better to stick something in the glibc's bits/types.h per-platform ?
Not that I particularly fancy going near glibc...
regards john
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