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From: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	linux-arch <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	james.t.kukunas@intel.com, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [tip:x86/asm] x86, bitops: Change bitops to be native operand size
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2013 17:16:22 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1385853382.1974.297@driftwood> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMuHMdWxRsiFGNBSsoEhyusyDWhuTQS+ecUiPHH1Yaufj43X1g@mail.gmail.com> (from geert@linux-m68k.org on Tue Nov 12 02:52:57 2013)

On 11/12/2013 02:52:57 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 5:08 AM, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2013-11-12 at 12:15 +0900, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >> Talking about "ideal implementation" is also singularly stupid.
> >
> > I just want the various arch implementations to match
> > the docs.  I know that's stupid.
> >
> > Maybe if you really don't want to discuss things, you
> > should fix the documentation.
> 
> E.g. by adding a paragraph that the actual allowed range of indices  
> may be
> a subset of "unsigned long" on some architectures.
> Or if we know that everyone supports at least 31 resp. 63 bits, that  
> it may
> be limited to 31 resp. 63 unsigned bits, which is the positive range  
> subset of
> "long".

If this ever turns into an actual patch to this file, could you cc: me  
on it so I can marshal it upstream? (Not enough domain expertise for me  
to produce it myself...)

Thanks,

Rob

      reply	other threads:[~2013-12-01  2:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-17  1:15 [tip:x86/asm] x86, bitops: Change bitops to be native operand size tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
2013-11-10 21:09 ` Joe Perches
2013-11-10 22:10   ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-11-10 22:44     ` Joe Perches
2013-11-11  2:06       ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-11-11  2:22         ` Joe Perches
2013-11-11 23:34           ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-11-12  2:54             ` Joe Perches
2013-11-12  3:15               ` Linus Torvalds
2013-11-12  4:08                 ` Joe Perches
2013-11-12  8:52                   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2013-11-30 23:16                     ` Rob Landley [this message]

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