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Subject: Re: [patch] new version, u64 cast avoidance
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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> a. my solution, as given
> b. move u64 and friends to include/linux/*.h
> c. you promise to never complain about warnings
> d. printk("Ugly: " U64_FMT "\n", some_u64_value);
> e. you patch gcc to modify format strings :-)
> f. ...
> 
> In other words, how do you propose to eliminate
> the casts?

Can't we live with those casts at least for a while ?

I don't know honestly what is the best solution, they all sound
equally ugly to me.

Ben.