Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2016 23:02:44 +0100 (CET)
From: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
To: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: livepatch: reuse module loader code to write relocations
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On Mon, 21 Mar 2016, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:

> According to my test that still results in the literal value of
> "(64 - 8)".

Alright. But we should be able to special-case it with a two #if checks on 
the __SIZEOF_LONG__ value and BUILD_BUG_ON() when __SIZEOF_LONG__ is not 
of one of the ususal sizes.

Thanks,

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs