Re: [RFC][PATCH] A generic boolean

Jes Sorensen
2006-08-04T18:44:50Z

Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com> writes:
>
>> Andreas Schwab wrote:
>>> Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> We know that today long is the only one that differs and that
>>>> m68k has horrible natural alignment rules for historical reasons, but
>>>> besides that it's pretty sane.
>>> Try determining the alignment of u64 on i386. You will be surprised.
>> If thats the case, then thats really scary :-(
>
> That's how the ABI is defined.

That the ABI for long long or the ABI for uint64_t? Given that u64 is a
Linux thing, it ought to be ok to do the alignment the right way within
the kernel.

Cheers,
Jes