From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Linux Arch Mailing List <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add C99-style constructor macros for specific-sized integers
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 21:23:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6d00362802813d8ed477b58ab218d03c@kernel.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47CB826A.7000202@zytor.com>
>> Do these new macros really buy anything over just writing LL in the
>> few places that 64-bit constants are used?
>
> It gives you macros that matches the s64/u64 et al definitions are,
> thus avoiding another class of spurious warnings.
GCC doesn't warn for implicit narrowing that doesn't change value.
The printk() example is a read herring IMHO, since variable arguments
functions are "very speshul" anyway, and require explicit casts in
many cases.
Segher
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-03 20:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-03 0:09 [PATCH 1/2] Add C99-style constructor macros for specific-sized integers H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-03 0:09 ` [PATCH 2/2] Use U64_C() instead of casts in kernel/time.c H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-03 2:38 ` [PATCH 1/2] Add C99-style constructor macros for specific-sized integers Matthew Wilcox
2008-03-03 4:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-03 6:20 ` Al Viro
2008-03-03 6:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-03 6:32 ` Al Viro
2008-03-03 6:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-03 3:20 ` Segher Boessenkool
2008-03-03 4:14 ` David Brownell
2008-03-03 4:50 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-03 4:45 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-03 20:23 ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]
2008-03-03 10:57 ` David Howells
2008-03-03 11:43 ` Russell King
2008-03-03 12:15 ` David Howells
2008-03-03 12:40 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-03-03 17:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
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