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From: Jes Sorensen <jes@sunsite.dk>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] C union on ia-64
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 23:16:21 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-105590698805428@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-ia64-105590698805377@msgid-missing>

>>>>> "n0ano" = n0ano  <n0ano@indstorage.com> writes:

n0ano> Yeah, I know that NT uses a P64 model but if you'll look at the
n0ano> caption of the slide in question it is for `Linux Device
n0ano> Drivers'.  Anyone who typedef's `ULONG' to anything other than
n0ano> a 64-bit long on IA64 Linux deserves the confusion that that
n0ano> will create.

Actually, for Linux *nobody* should typedef ULONG or PVOID or any of
thos broken windows types to anything. Use the types as they are
named: `unsigned long', `void *' and use fixed sized types when fixed
sizes are needed: `u32', `u64', `s32' etc etc.

Promoting bogus typedefs is only going to make the code ugly,
unmaintainable and hard to debug.

Jes


      parent reply	other threads:[~2001-10-31 23:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-23 19:03 [Linux-ia64] C union on ia-64 Gururaj Ananthateerta
2001-10-24 11:35 ` Andreas Schwab
2001-10-24 18:52 ` Gururaj Ananthateerta
2001-10-24 19:46 ` Andreas Schwab
2001-10-24 19:46 ` Boehm, Hans
2001-10-24 19:50 ` n0ano
2001-10-24 19:50 ` KOCHI, Takayoshi
2001-10-25  1:12 ` Tang, Yu
2001-10-25 14:36 ` n0ano
2001-10-31 23:16 ` Jes Sorensen [this message]

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