Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265368AbUAJUur (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jan 2004 15:50:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265393AbUAJUuq (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jan 2004 15:50:46 -0500 Received: from out007pub.verizon.net ([206.46.170.107]:43706 "EHLO out007.verizon.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265368AbUAJUum (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jan 2004 15:50:42 -0500 From: Gene Heskett Reply-To: gene.heskett@verizon.net Organization: Organization: None that appears to be detectable by casual observers To: Bart Samwel Subject: Re: [PATCH][TRIVIAL] Remove bogus "value 0x37ffffff truncated to 0x37ffffff" warning. Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 15:50:40 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 Cc: Tim Cambrant , Mario Vanoni , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton References: <40001CEE.5050206@bluewin.ch> <200401101342.40728.gene.heskett@verizon.net> <40005D29.5090803@samwel.tk> In-Reply-To: <40005D29.5090803@samwel.tk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200401101550.40901.gene.heskett@verizon.net> X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out007.verizon.net from [151.205.61.108] at Sat, 10 Jan 2004 14:50:40 -0600 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1117 Lines: 31 On Saturday 10 January 2004 15:14, Bart Samwel wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: [...] >> Which is correct? > >This is a C macro. Apparently in your arch it isn't used in any >assembler code. The reason that i386 doesn't cast to unsigned long > is that casts aren't an assembler construct, and this macro is used > in arch/i386/boot/setup.S. Also, PAGE_OFFSET includes an (unsigned > long) cast as well, __PAGE_OFFSET doesn't, and that explains why > i386 uses __PAGE_OFFSET. > >-- Bart Thanks, that clears it up to me. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.22% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/