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Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 07:48:57 +0100
From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
To: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: 0xdeadbeef vs 0xdeadbeefL
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On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 02:55:01AM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Jul  6, 2004, Ray Lee <ray-lk@madrabbit.org> wrote:
> 
> > Which means 0xdeadbeef is a perfectly valid literal for an unsigned int.
> 
> Assuming ints are 32-bits wide.

ITYM "at least 32-bits wide".

>  They don't have to be.  They could be
> as narrow as 16 bits, in which case

... you would have no fscking chance to build Linux kernel on such platform
for $BIGNUM reasons.