Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 06:28:45 -0800
From: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
To: joe.korty@ccur.com
Cc: paulus@samba.org, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: seperator error in __mask_snprintf_len
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Joe, responding to Paul M:
> > Why do you have to reference them as u32?  Why can't you use unsigned
> > long instead?  That should Just Work.
> 
> I believe he wants the commas to group the digits by at most eight
> irrespective of architecture.  Which seems reasonable.


Yes - that's why I use u32 - each comma separated word in the
ascii representation of a mask represents 32 bits, regardless
of the native word size of the current architecture.

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