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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>
To: Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>,
	David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>,
	torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org, sfr@canb.auug.org.au,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] LOG2: Implement a general integer log2 facility in the kernel [try #4]
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 12:26:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200610091227.02310.arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EE65413A-0E34-40DA-9037-72423C18CD0C@mac.com>

On Monday 09 October 2006 11:51, Kyle Moffett wrote:
>    #if defined(CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_64BIT_WORD)
>    typedef unsigned long  __u64;
>    typedef   signed long  __s64;
>    #elif defined(__GNUC__)
>    __extension__ typedef unsigned long long __u64;
>    __extension__ typedef   signed long long __s64;
>    #endif
> 

Well, some architectures currently expext __u64/__s64 to be
long long even with 64 bits. Changing that will likely cause
a number of new compiler warnings about conversion between
these. Of course it would be nice to clean these up, since
it's already a pain to printk() a variable of type u64.

More importantly, your code has the problem that it relies
on a CONFIG_* symbol, which will break when user space includes
the file, because that does not have config.h.

	Arnd <><

  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-09 10:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-06 13:34 [PATCH 1/4] LOG2: Implement a general integer log2 facility in the kernel [try #4] David Howells
2006-10-06 13:34 ` [PATCH 2/4] LOG2: Alter roundup_pow_of_two() so that it can use a ilog2() on a constant " David Howells
2006-10-06 13:34 ` [PATCH 3/4] LOG2: Alter get_order() so that it can make use of " David Howells
2006-10-06 13:34 ` [PATCH 4/4] LOG2: Provide ilog2() fallbacks for powerpc " David Howells
2006-10-06 14:17 ` [PATCH 1/4] LOG2: Implement a general integer log2 facility in the kernel " Matthew Wilcox
2006-10-06 14:33   ` David Howells
2006-10-06 17:17   ` Christoph Lameter
2006-10-09 10:11     ` David Howells
2006-10-09 11:06       ` Christoph Lameter
2006-10-09 12:09         ` David Howells
2006-10-09 17:17           ` Christoph Lameter
2006-10-10  9:58             ` David Howells
2006-10-06 20:33 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-10-06 20:39   ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-10-06 20:52     ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-10-09  8:06       ` David Howells
2006-10-09  8:36         ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-10-09  9:51           ` Kyle Moffett
2006-10-09 10:26             ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2006-10-09 10:32             ` Stephen Rothwell
2006-10-09 12:20             ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-10-09 12:54               ` David Howells
2006-10-09 20:00                 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-10-09 20:36                   ` Andreas Schwab
2006-10-10  9:41                     ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-10-10 11:42                       ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-10-09 13:09               ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2006-10-09 14:52                 ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-10-09 15:05                   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2006-10-09 15:27                     ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-10-09 15:31                       ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2006-10-09 16:47                         ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-10-10  7:55                           ` David Woodhouse
2006-10-10 12:12                             ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-10-10 12:23               ` David Howells
2006-10-07 23:50 ` Roman Zippel

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