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SubjectRe: Confusion in usr/include/asm-generic/fcntl.h
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 01:13:16PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wednesday 21 January 2009, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > Could we add a new symbol for this?
> > We know we are going to use this in several places so a simpler variant
> > would be more readable.
> >
> > Something like:
> >
> > #ifdef __64BIT
> > ...
> > #endif
> >
> > When we define __64BIT we would use the  __BITS_PER_LONG == 64 check.
>
> I would prefer using the __BITS_PER_LONG == 64 check directly, because
> it gives you a warning when __BITS_PER_LONG is undefined, whereas the
> #ifdef check gets easily fooled by include order problems. Note that
> this is not a problem in the kernel for CONFIG_* symbols which are
> always defined before the first #include.

It gives the warning only if you add -Wundef which IIRC is not default
with -Wall. And using the "__BITS_PER_LONG == 64" the risk of gitting
the expression wrong is much higher than the simpler variant where
you only write:

__64BIT

But I have no strong feelings for it.

Sam
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