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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
To: esr@thyrsus.com
Cc: Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: LSB1.1: /proc/cpuinfo
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 10:46:08 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C35CE40.836D3552@mandrakesoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020103190219.B27938@thyrsus.com> <Pine.GSO.4.21.0201031944320.23693-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu> <20020103195207.A31252@thyrsus.com> <20020104081802.GC5587@codepoet.org> <20020104071940.A10172@thyrsus.com>

"Eric S. Raymond" wrote:
> I'm not very worried about this.  On modern machines int == long

I have been attempting to hammer this incorrect assumption out of
people's brains for years, and have submitted many patches to Linus [1]
over time, removing such crud from the kernel.

Such an assumption is blatantly non-portable, rendering your code
fragile.

	Jeff, longtime alpha owner



[1] and other userland maintainers

-- 
Jeff Garzik      | Only so many songs can be sung
Building 1024    | with two lips, two lungs, and one tongue.
MandrakeSoft     |         - nomeansno

  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-01-04 15:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200201032355.g03Ntx911860@burner.fokus.gmd.de>
2002-01-04  0:02 ` LSB1.1: /proc/cpuinfo Eric S. Raymond
2002-01-04  0:56   ` Alexander Viro
2002-01-04  0:52     ` Eric S. Raymond
2002-01-04  8:18       ` Erik Andersen
2002-01-04 12:19         ` Eric S. Raymond
2002-01-04 13:11           ` Andreas Schwab
2002-01-04 13:03             ` Eric S. Raymond
2002-01-04 13:25               ` Andreas Schwab
2002-01-04 13:27               ` Andreas Jaeger
2002-01-04 13:36               ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-01-04 15:34               ` Luigi Genoni
2002-01-04 17:02               ` Alan Cox
2002-01-04 18:30                 ` Eric S. Raymond
2002-01-04 21:44                 ` Ville Herva
2002-01-04 22:19                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-04 15:46           ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2002-01-04 19:35           ` Erik Andersen
2002-01-04  1:56     ` Timothy Covell
2002-01-07  1:05     ` Rusty Russell
2002-01-04  0:35 ` Dan Kegel

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