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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Start of compat32.h (again)
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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   From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
   Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 00:00:53 -0800
   
   It should be safe to declare the syscall
   return type always as "long", no?
   
Sign extension is a rule of the architecture.

So if the platform says "int shall not be sign
extended to 64-bits", declaring as long is wrong.
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