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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Michael Matz <matz@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove strict ansi check from __u64 in asm/types.h
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 10:41:15 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46B75D3B.6080101@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070806172331.GA8102@suse.de>

Olaf Hering wrote:
> 
> Remove the __STRICT_ANSI__ check from the __u64/__s64 declaration on
> 32bit targets.
> 
> Here is the reason why we think the check should be relaxed:
> 

I think the fact that "long long" was made official C in C99 is good
enough.  Flagging them as __extension__ is okay, I guess, but something
like this should definitely go in.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-06 17:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-06 17:23 [PATCH] remove strict ansi check from __u64 in asm/types.h Olaf Hering
2007-08-06 17:41 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-08-07  0:13   ` Mike Frysinger
2007-08-07 13:57     ` Michael Matz
2007-08-12 18:07       ` Mike Frysinger
2007-08-10  8:27 ` Olaf Hering
2007-08-10  8:34   ` Andrew Morton

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