Re: [PATCH] 2.4.21-rc1: byteorder.h breaks with __STRICT_ANSI__ defined (trivial)

David S. Miller
2003-11-06T19:42:33Z

On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 20:42:59 +0200
Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org> wrote:

> Ok, so maybe above is not a case to work on, but if I write an
> app that use only 32bit data types, and it links to a library that
> also handles 64bit, it does not matter, as I do not call the functions
> that handle 64bit data types, no ?

Let's say that you end up using some inline function
that takes u32 arguments, and internally it uses
u64 types to speed up the calculation or make it more
accurate or something like that.