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SubjectRe: Compiling kernel with SuSE 8.2/gcc 3.3
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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.
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