Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: Large block device patch, part 1 of 9 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Date | 03 Sep 2002 18:23:43 +0200 |
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> writes:
> On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Neil Brown wrote: > > > > Effectively, this is a type-safe cast. You still get the warning, but > > it looks more like the C that we are used to. > > I wonder if the right answer isn't to just make things like "__u64" be > "long long" even on 64-bit architectures (at least those on which it is 64 > bit, of course. I _think_ that's true of all of them). And then just use > "llu" for it all.
x86-64 does that already. I did it originally to fix some printk warnings. But it caused even more. I didn't bother then to change it back. Doesn't seem to have too many bad side effects at least.
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