Messages in this thread | | | From | David Howells <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/4] LOG2: Implement a general integer log2 facility in the kernel [try #4] | Date | Mon, 09 Oct 2006 09:06:08 +0100 |
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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?
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