Re: [PATCH] add new DMA_ADDR_T_SIZE define

[Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sf.net>]

David S. Miller writes:
> On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 09:28, Ion Badulescu wrote:

>> then you're probably debugging, not performance-tuning,
>> so the cast to u64 is acceptable.
>
> Not true, you must cast to 'long long' as there is no
> appropriate printf format string for u64 that works
> warning-free on all systems.

Casts are ugly and they hide bugs. There is a fix
for this problem: make u64 be "unsigned long long"
for every arch. That works for both 32-bit and 64-bit
systems. Likewise, choose "unsigned" for u32 even
if an "unsigned long" would work for a given arch.