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SubjectRe: [2.6 patch] asm-generic/int-ll64.h: always provide __{s,u}64
Adrian Bunk wrote:
> Several compilers offer "long long" without claiming to support C99.
>
> Considering how frequent __s64/__u64 are used our userspace headers are
> anyway unusable without __s64/__u64 available.
>
> Always offer __s64/__u64 to non-gcc non-C99 compilers - if they provide
> "long long" that makes the headers compiling and if they don't they are
> anyway screwed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>

This makes sense to me (I did, however, not want to make that change
part of the same changeset - one change at a time.)

The main reason for not just blindly using "long long" has to do with
the use of gcc -ansi -pedantic in userspace, which is already taken care
of by the use of __extension__ in the __GNUC__ clause.

Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>



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