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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Alexey Zaytsev <alexey.zaytsev@gmail.com>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, Greg McGary <greg@mcgary.org>,
	linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Subject: Re: Proposal: (u)intptr_t replaces (unsigned) long as opaque type
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 07:50:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9520.1284879021@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTin001qXMjqPjQxsHOD3xwvxh3YnOmEJmsyMa=yb@mail.gmail.com>

Alexey Zaytsev <alexey.zaytsev@gmail.com> wrote:

> Forgive my ignorence, but is there something fundamentally wrong with
> having 48-bit longs?

48 is not a power of 2.  I wonder what that might break...

David

      reply	other threads:[~2010-09-19  6:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-18 21:42 Proposal: (u)intptr_t replaces (unsigned) long as opaque type Greg McGary
2010-09-18 23:54 ` Matthew Wilcox
2010-09-19  2:43   ` Greg McGary
2010-09-19  4:06     ` Matthew Wilcox
2010-09-19 16:53       ` Greg McGary
2010-09-20  9:30         ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-09-20 20:28           ` Greg McGary
2010-09-21  6:32             ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-09-19  4:33 ` Alexey Zaytsev
2010-09-19  6:50   ` David Howells [this message]

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