Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add C99-style constructor macros for specific-sized integers

Matthew Wilcox
2008-03-03T02:39:24Z

On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 04:09:51PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> first place. C99 has macros of the form [U]INT#_C() to construct
> numbers of an arbitrary size; this patch creates analogous macros for
> the kernel s# and u# types.

Why put this in asm/types.h instead of, say, linux/types.h?

I appreciate you have:

> +#define S64_C(x) x ## L
> +#define U64_C(x) x ## UL

and:

> +#define S64_C(x) x ## LL
> +#define U64_C(x) x ## ULL

but can't we use the latter for all arches?

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