Re: [PATCH 02/14] quota: Increase size of variables for limits and inode usage

[Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>]

Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:11:40 +0100 Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> wrote:
> 
> 
> Also, qsize_t is typedefed to a __u64.  But u64's are a pain because
> people keep trying to print them and they often forget the typecast
> and they cause warning storms.
> 
> 
> So until that gets fixed it'd be good to just do
> 
> typedef unsigned long long qsize_t;
> 
> which I think we can trivally do?
> 
> 
> Why does qsize_t exist, anyway?  It's always going to be 64-bit, so why
> not open-code `unsigned long long' everywhere.  Or u64?
> 
> I guess it has some readability benefit in certain cases.  It'd be a
> damn sight more useful if we also got compiler typechecking for such
> typedefs, but such is C...
> 

There is always that:

typedef unsigned long long __bitwise qsize_t;

And that special "sparse" compiler. So I guess it would
be checked by some people

Boaz