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From: Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 65/73] ACPICA: Fix for extraneous debug message for packages
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 01:55:23 +0400
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To: Tomas Carnecky <tom@dbservice.com>
Cc: Alexey Starikovskiy <aystarik@gmail.com>, "Moore, Robert" <robert.moore@intel.com>, Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org

Tomas Carnecky wrote:
> Alexey Starikovskiy wrote:
>> Moore, Robert wrote:
>>> I think one of the reasons we introduced ACPI_NATIVE_UINT is that "int"
>>> is in fact not "native" under all compilation models.
>>>
>>> Here is the table from actypes.h
>>>
>>>  * Datatype  LP64 ILP64 LLP64 ILP32 LP32 16bit
>>>  * char      8    8     8     8     8    8
>>>  * short     16   16    16    16    16   16
>>>  * _int32         32
>>>  * int       32   64    32    32    16   16
>>>  * long      64   64    32    32    32   32
>>>  * long long            64    64
>>>  * pointer   64   64    64    32    32   32
>>>
>>>   
>> Sorry, what do you mean by "not native" ?
>> sizeof(int) != sizeof(void *)  or something else?
> 
> On Linux that is not true!
What is not true? Meaning of "native" in our not-so-private discussion?
> From wikipedia on '64-bit':
> Many 64-bit compilers today use the LP64 model (including Solaris, AIX, 
> HP, Linux, Mac OS X, and IBM z/OS native compilers). Microsoft's VC++ 
> compiler uses the LLP64 model.
> 
> So on Linux: sizeof(long) == sizeof(void *), that's why the kernel uses 
> 'long' all over the place instead of 'int'.
These are well known facts, we were struggling through term definitions.

Regards,
Alex.