From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>,
davidm@hpl.hp.com,
linux-kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Andrew Morton OSDL <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] new version, u64 cast avoidance
Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 12:08:47 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1078016927.904.17.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1078006870.2233.94.camel@cube>
> a. my solution, as given
> b. move u64 and friends to include/linux/*.h
> c. you promise to never complain about warnings
> d. printk("Ugly: " U64_FMT "\n", some_u64_value);
> e. you patch gcc to modify format strings :-)
> f. ...
>
> In other words, how do you propose to eliminate
> the casts?
Can't we live with those casts at least for a while ?
I don't know honestly what is the best solution, they all sound
equally ugly to me.
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-29 1:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-27 20:58 [patch] u64 casts Albert Cahalan
2004-02-28 0:18 ` David Mosberger
2004-02-27 22:16 ` Albert Cahalan
2004-02-28 0:45 ` David Mosberger
2004-02-27 22:53 ` Albert Cahalan
2004-02-28 7:44 ` David S. Miller
2004-02-28 10:42 ` Jakub Jelinek
2004-02-28 14:46 ` [patch] new version, u64 cast avoidance Albert Cahalan
2004-02-28 23:58 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-02-28 23:59 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-02-28 22:21 ` Albert Cahalan
2004-02-29 1:08 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2004-02-28 23:49 ` Albert Cahalan
2004-02-29 3:25 ` Matt Mackall
2004-02-29 1:01 ` [patch] 3rd " Albert Cahalan
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