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From: Jeff Law <law@redhat.com>
To: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] posix_types.h: make __NFDBITS match glibc definition
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 13:19:29 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <500EF541.50009@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120724182409.GB10534@zod.bos.redhat.com>

On 07/24/12 12:24, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 11:20:11AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> +#define __NFDBITS      (8 * (int) sizeof(long int))
>>
>> I don't know if the type change is needed, but who the hell uses "long int"?
>
> Not strictly, no.  I believe in my brief tests, just the int cast was
> sufficient.  I can respin if you'd like.  I probably need to anyway to
> CC stable on this.
All that's strictly necessary is that cast to (int).  That avoids the 
problem.

Jeff

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-07-24 19:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-24 18:12 [PATCH] posix_types.h: make __NFDBITS match glibc definition Josh Boyer
2012-07-24 18:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-07-24 18:24   ` Josh Boyer
2012-07-24 18:32     ` [PATCH v2] posix_types.h: make __NFDBITS compatible with " Josh Boyer
2012-07-24 18:46       ` Linus Torvalds
2012-07-24 19:03         ` Josh Boyer
2012-07-24 19:09           ` Linus Torvalds
2012-07-24 19:15             ` Jeff Law
2012-07-24 19:24               ` Linus Torvalds
2012-07-24 19:26                 ` Jeff Law
2012-07-24 19:43                   ` Josh Boyer
2012-07-24 19:55                     ` Linus Torvalds
2012-07-24 20:10                       ` Josh Boyer
2012-07-24 20:13                         ` Linus Torvalds
2012-07-24 20:02                     ` Andreas Schwab
2012-07-24 19:43                   ` Linus Torvalds
2012-07-24 20:01                     ` Jeff Law
2012-07-24 19:19     ` Jeff Law [this message]
2012-07-24 19:37       ` [PATCH] posix_types.h: make __NFDBITS match " Linus Torvalds
2012-07-24 19:39         ` Linus Torvalds
2012-07-24 19:41         ` Josh Boyer
2012-07-24 19:59           ` Linus Torvalds
2012-07-24 20:11             ` Linus Torvalds
2012-07-24 20:52               ` Andreas Schwab

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