From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: "Martin Brulisauer" <martin@uceb.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: type safe lists (was Re: PATCH: type safe(r) list_entry repacement: generic_out_cast)
Date: 24 Jul 2002 15:23:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <p73d6tdtg2s.fsf@oldwotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: "Martin Brulisauer"'s message of "24 Jul 2002 09:44:34 +0200"
>
> As long as your pointers are 32bit this seems to be ok. But on
> 64bit implementations pointers are not (unsigned long) so this cast
> seems to be wrong.
A pointer fits into unsigned long on all 64bit linux ports.
The kernel very heavily relies on that.
You are probably thinking of Win64, but this is not Windows.
-Andi
next parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-24 13:22 UTC|newest]
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[not found] ` <3D3E75E9.28151.2A7FBB2@localhost.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2002-07-24 13:23 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2002-07-24 21:00 ` type safe lists (was Re: PATCH: type safe(r) list_entry repacement: generic_out_cast) Linus Torvalds
2002-07-24 23:39 ` Jamie Lokier
[not found] <15677.33040.579042.645371@laputa.namesys.com>
2002-07-23 11:47 ` PATCH: type safe(r) list_entry repacement: generic_out_cast Jakob Oestergaard
2002-07-23 22:07 ` type safe lists (was Re: PATCH: type safe(r) list_entry repacement: generic_out_cast) Joshua MacDonald
2002-07-24 7:39 ` Martin Brulisauer
2002-07-24 8:24 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-07-24 9:56 ` Joshua MacDonald
2002-07-24 10:50 ` Martin Brulisauer
2002-07-24 11:58 ` Jakob Oestergaard
2002-07-24 16:49 ` John Alvord
2002-07-25 5:29 ` Greg KH
2002-07-25 6:20 ` Roland Dreier
2002-09-04 13:48 ` Alexander Kellett
2002-09-04 14:27 ` DervishD
2002-07-24 12:22 ` Jakob Oestergaard
2002-07-24 12:40 ` Joshua MacDonald
2002-07-24 15:15 ` Hans Reiser
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