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Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 23:23:05 +0100
From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
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Subject: Differences in bitops argument types
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  Hello,

  I've just found out that operations like constant_test_bit() take pointer
of different types on different architectures. In particular, x86_64,
blackfin and frv take void * while i386, s390 and m68k take unsigned long
*. Is this intended difference? Wouldn't using void * everywhere be more
appropriate? Thanks for answer in advance.

								Honza