From: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: From Eric Anholt:
Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 00:12:03 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c7rq4j$gjp$1@terminus.zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20040511234329.GA27242@kroah.com
Followup to: <20040511234329.GA27242@kroah.com>
By author: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Don't know, but how are you dealing with the issue that an "int" is
> different for different kernel sizes (64 vs 32) and userspace too.
> That's why you can't use it in an ioctl and expect things to work
> properly.
>
On Linux, "int" should always be 32 bits. "long", and "void *",
however, may be 32 or 64 bits.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-12 0:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200405112211.i4BMBQDZ006167@hera.kernel.org>
2004-05-11 22:22 ` From Eric Anholt: Greg KH
2004-05-11 23:17 ` Dave Airlie
2004-05-11 23:20 ` Dave Airlie
2004-05-11 23:34 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-05-11 23:43 ` Greg KH
2004-05-12 0:07 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-05-12 0:12 ` Greg KH
2004-05-12 0:12 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2004-05-11 23:46 ` ioctls in drm.h Dave Airlie
2004-05-13 1:39 ` From Eric Anholt: Eric Anholt
2004-05-12 1:07 ` Jon Smirl
2004-05-12 1:15 ` Greg KH
2004-05-12 22:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-13 16:54 ` Egbert Eich
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