From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Eliminating grub_size_t
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:52:26 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1215111146.4585.40.camel@dv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <486D1D8B.6040300@nic.fi>
On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 21:42 +0300, Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote:
> > I think I'll try to make grub_size_t 32-bit everywhere and see if it's
> > going to make any difference or help discover some issues.
>
> Why? I would let it be optimal type for current memory bus width.
int is supposed to be the optimal type, and int is 32-bit on 64-bit
platforms we support. As far as I know, the x86_64 machine code
actually defaults to 32-bit for all arguments except memory addresses.
--
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-03 18:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-02 2:14 Eliminating grub_size_t Pavel Roskin
2008-07-02 2:33 ` Javier Martín
2008-07-02 4:20 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-07-02 10:26 ` Isaac Dupree
2008-07-02 13:23 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-07-02 17:46 ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2008-07-02 17:51 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-07-03 18:02 ` Marco Gerards
2008-07-03 18:29 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-07-03 18:42 ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2008-07-03 18:52 ` Pavel Roskin [this message]
2008-07-03 19:07 ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2008-07-03 19:16 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-07-03 18:56 ` Marco Gerards
2008-07-03 19:05 ` Pavel Roskin
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