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On 05/17/2012 03:56 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> It would make much more sense to use "__word" for reasons like that.
> But I really don't think that works well in a x86 context.
> 
> Other ideas? Maybe "__wordsize" would be less associated with x86 16-bit words?
> 

__[su]native maybe?

	-hpa

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