Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Compiling kernel with SuSE 8.2/gcc 3.3 | Date | Thu, 12 Jun 2003 08:52:28 -0400 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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Steve French <smfrench@austin.rr.com> said: > Although it fixes it for building on 32 bit architectures, won't changing > > > __u64 uid = 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF; > to > > __u64 uid = 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFULL; > > generate a type mismatch warning on ppc64 and similar 64 bit > architecutres since __u64 is not a unsigned long long on ppc64 > (it is unsigned long)? My gut reaction is to just ingore the three > places that cause warnings and the remaining two places that cause > signed/unsigned compare warnings of unsigned int local variables > to #defined literals (which presumably are treated as signed by default).
Be careful, the value will get shoehorned into 4 bytes to make the int constant, which is then assigned to the __u64. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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