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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/4] LOG2: Implement a general integer log2 facility in the kernel [try #4]
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Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> wrote:

> >Were you planning on porting Linux to a machine with non-8-bit-bytes any
> >time soon? Because there's a lot more to fix than this.
>
> I am considering the case [assuming 8-bit-byte machines] where
> sizeof(u32) is not 4. Though I suppose GCC will probably make a 32-bit
> type up if the hardware does not know one.

If the machine has 8-bit bytes, how can sizeof(u32) be anything other than 4?

David
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