Re: [2.6 patch] asm-generic/int-ll64.h: always provide __{s,u}64

[Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 15:01 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > Several compilers offer "long long" without claiming to support C99.
> > 
> > Considering how frequent __s64/__u64 are used our userspace headers are 
> > anyway unusable without __s64/__u64 available.
> > 
> > Always offer __s64/__u64 to non-gcc non-C99 compilers - if they provide 
> > "long long" that makes the headers compiling and if they don't they are 
> > anyway screwed.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
> 
> This makes sense to me (I did, however, not want to make that change 
> part of the same changeset - one change at a time.)
> 
> The main reason for not just blindly using "long long" has to do with 
> the use of gcc -ansi -pedantic in userspace, which is already taken care 
> of by the use of __extension__ in the __GNUC__ clause.
> 

If it is going to be unconditionally offered, we could get rid of
__BYTEORDER_HAS_U64__ as a next step.  Unless there is something I've
missed.

Harvey