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From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
Cc: mtosatti@redhat.com, avi@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ioctl() numbers are unsigned (the man page lies)
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 20:58:23 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120209095823.GE22832@truffala.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F338411.20408@web.de>

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On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 09:30:09AM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> Looks like the subject would warmly welcome a "kvm:" tag.
> 
> On 2012-02-09 05:22, David Gibson wrote:
[snip]
> 
> What about naming the problem instead:
> 
> /* Comparison with IOCTL macros on 32-bit hosts requires unsigned. */

Just once, it would be nice to post something to this list and get a
substantive comment _before_ the bitching about minutiae.

Oh, and it's not just 32-bit hosts, it's anywhere sizeof(int)==4,
which includes ppc64 amongst other 64-bit hosts.

-- 
David Gibson			| I'll have my music baroque, and my code
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  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-09  9:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-09  4:22 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ioctl() numbers are unsigned (the man page lies) David Gibson
2012-02-09  8:30 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-02-09  9:58   ` David Gibson [this message]
2012-02-09 10:06     ` Jan Kiszka
2012-02-09 12:07       ` Paul Brook
2012-02-09 14:11         ` Jan Kiszka
2012-02-10  6:45           ` David Gibson
2012-02-10  6:43       ` David Gibson
2012-02-10  7:27         ` Jan Kiszka

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