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From: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 20:02:21 +0000
Subject: RE: [PATCH 5/6] fix warning on test_ti_thread_flag()
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To: 'Geert Uytterhoeven' <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Akinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>, Linux Kernel Development <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org, parisc-linux@parisc-linux.org, Linux/PPC Development <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>, linux390@de.ibm.com, linuxsh-dev@lists.sourceforge.net, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, ultralinux@vger.kernel.org, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>

Geert Uytterhoeven wrote on Wednesday, January 25, 2006 9:19 AM
> > I don't think you need to change the flags size.
> 
> Passing a pointer to a 32-bit entity to a function that takes a
> pointer to a 64-bit entity is a classical endianness bug. So it's
> better to change it, before people copy the code to a big endian
> platform.

Well, x86-64 and linux-ia64 both use little endian.  I don't
understand why you are barking at us with big endian issue.

- Ken


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