Re: [PATCH 1/4] LOG2: Implement a general integer log2 facility in the kernel [try #4]

Jan Engelhardt
2006-10-09T08:43:13Z

>> >Were you planning on porting Linux to a machine with non-8-bit-bytes any
>> >time soon? Because there's a lot more to fix than this.
>>
>> I am considering the case [assuming 8-bit-byte machines] where
>> sizeof(u32) is not 4. Though I suppose GCC will probably make a 32-bit
>> type up if the hardware does not know one.
>
>If the machine has 8-bit bytes, how can sizeof(u32) be anything other than 4?

typedef unsigned int u32;

Though this should not be seen in the linux kernel.

-`J'
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