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Subject: Re: Eliminating grub_size_t
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Pavel Roskin wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 21:42 +0300, Vesa J=E4=E4skel=E4inen wrote:
>=20
>>> 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.
>=20
> 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.

And size_t is kinda connected to memory addresses. Do you agree :) ?