Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750753AbVKAL1q (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Nov 2005 06:27:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750744AbVKAL1q (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Nov 2005 06:27:46 -0500 Received: from witte.sonytel.be ([80.88.33.193]:48832 "EHLO witte.sonytel.be") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750737AbVKAL1p (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Nov 2005 06:27:45 -0500 Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 12:27:36 +0100 (CET) From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: Willy Tarreau cc: Matt Mackall , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Development , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/20] inflate: (arch) kill silly zlib typedefs In-Reply-To: <20051101085740.GR22601@alpha.home.local> Message-ID: References: <14.196662837@selenic.com> <20051031211422.GC4367@waste.org> <20051101065327.GP22601@alpha.home.local> <20051101085740.GR22601@alpha.home.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1417 Lines: 35 On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Willy Tarreau wrote: > On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 08:50:43AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Willy Tarreau wrote: > > > But if it's a pointer why don't you declare them unsigned long then ? > > > C defines the long as the integer the right size to store a pointer. > > ^ > > Is it C? > > Yes, that's what I read quite a time ago, and it appears that it was an > interpretation of the spec which is not true anymore with LLP64 models :-( > > > Since on Wintendo P64 it's not true... > > I don't know if x86_64 is LP64 or LLP64 on Linux, but at least my alpha > and sparc64 are LP64, so is another PPC64 I use for code validation. > LPC64 is the recommended model for easier 32 to 64 portability (where > ints are 32 ; long, longlong, ptrs are 64). Linux on x86_64 uses LP64, like all other 64-bit platforms Linux runs on. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds - 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/