From: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
ricknu-0@student.ltu.se, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] A generic boolean
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 18:08:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44D370ED.2050605@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <je4pws1ofb.fsf@sykes.suse.de>
Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com> writes:
>> Thats the problem, people will start putting them into structs, and
>> voila all alignment predictability has gone out the window.
>
> Just like trying to predict the alignment of any other C type.
Well in that case, could you list the size of it for all Linux archs
please? We know that today long is the only one that differs and that
m68k has horrible natural alignment rules for historical reasons, but
besides that it's pretty sane.
Just because something exists doesn't mean using it is a good thing.
Just like gcc supporting exceptions :)
Regards,
Jes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-04 16:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 89+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-19 20:38 [RFC][PATCH] A generic boolean ricknu-0
2006-07-19 21:04 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-07-19 23:17 ` ricknu-0
2006-07-20 0:13 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-07-20 3:04 ` Vadim Lobanov
2006-07-20 3:53 ` Shorty Porty
2006-07-20 3:59 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-07-20 8:07 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-08-04 14:03 ` Jes Sorensen
2006-08-04 14:42 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-04 14:35 ` Jes Sorensen
2006-08-04 15:51 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-04 15:58 ` Jes Sorensen
2006-08-04 16:00 ` Andreas Schwab
2006-08-04 16:08 ` Jes Sorensen [this message]
2006-08-04 16:16 ` Andreas Schwab
2006-08-04 16:26 ` Jes Sorensen
2006-08-04 16:57 ` Andreas Schwab
2006-08-04 18:47 ` Jes Sorensen
2006-08-04 18:51 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-04 18:58 ` Jes Sorensen
2006-08-04 19:04 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-06 9:25 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-08-06 9:48 ` Andreas Schwab
2006-08-06 9:31 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-08-06 15:31 ` Jes Sorensen
2006-08-04 16:30 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-04 16:20 ` Jes Sorensen
2006-07-19 21:20 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2006-07-19 22:47 ` ricknu-0
2006-07-19 23:52 ` Peter Williams
2006-07-20 0:08 ` ricknu-0
2006-07-20 8:09 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-07-21 1:24 ` [RFC][PATCH] A generic boolean (version 2) ricknu-0
2006-07-21 1:34 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-07-21 8:55 ` Pekka Enberg
2006-07-21 21:14 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-07-25 19:04 ` Roman Kononov
2006-07-21 22:31 ` ricknu-0
2006-07-23 19:56 ` ricknu-0
2006-07-21 14:23 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-07-21 18:27 ` Michael Buesch
2006-07-21 21:14 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-07-21 22:11 ` ricknu-0
2006-07-22 8:56 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-07-21 23:08 ` [RFC][PATCH] A generic boolean (version 3) ricknu-0
2006-07-21 23:27 ` ricknu-0
2006-07-22 5:40 ` Stefan Richter
2006-07-22 17:08 ` ricknu-0
2006-07-22 18:08 ` Stefan Richter
2006-07-22 8:58 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-07-22 17:19 ` ricknu-0
2006-07-22 9:55 ` Lars Gullik Bjønnes
2006-07-23 15:43 ` ricknu-0
2006-07-23 15:49 ` [RFC][PATCH] A generic boolean (version 4) ricknu-0
2006-07-23 16:08 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-07-23 19:36 ` ricknu-0
2006-07-23 20:26 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-07-23 20:25 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-07-23 21:17 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-07-23 21:44 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-07-24 8:55 ` Paul Jackson
2006-07-23 16:13 ` Michael Buesch
2006-07-23 19:46 ` ricknu-0
2006-07-23 20:24 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-07-23 21:13 ` Paul Jackson
2006-07-25 23:22 ` [RFC][PATCH] A generic boolean (version 5) ricknu-0
2006-07-26 0:42 ` Paul Jackson
2006-07-26 20:28 ` [RFC][PATCH] A generic boolean (version 6) ricknu-0
2006-07-27 1:06 ` Paul Jackson
2006-07-27 2:10 ` Josef Sipek
2006-07-27 3:51 ` ricknu-0
2006-07-27 4:40 ` Josef Sipek
2006-07-27 4:00 ` Paul Jackson
2006-07-27 3:30 ` ricknu-0
2006-07-28 16:57 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-07-27 2:48 ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-07-27 3:22 ` ricknu-0
2006-07-27 5:27 ` Nicholas Miell
2006-07-27 6:51 ` Paul Jackson
2006-07-27 19:55 ` ricknu-0
2006-07-27 20:13 ` Nicholas Miell
2006-07-28 1:29 ` ricknu-0
2006-07-28 1:56 ` Nicholas Miell
2006-07-28 12:50 ` Alan Cox
2006-07-28 20:24 ` Lars Noschinski
2006-07-28 21:31 ` Nicholas Miell
2006-07-27 19:46 ` [RFC][PATCH] A generic boolean (version 7) ricknu-0
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2006-08-04 20:51 ` [RFC][PATCH] A generic boolean Bodo Eggert
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