Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964913AbWCWVBf (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Mar 2006 16:01:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964935AbWCWVBf (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Mar 2006 16:01:35 -0500 Received: from zeniv.linux.org.uk ([195.92.253.2]:58766 "EHLO ZenIV.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964913AbWCWVBe (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Mar 2006 16:01:34 -0500 Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 21:01:28 +0000 From: Al Viro To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Arjan van de Ven , vgoyal@in.ibm.com, linux kernel mailing list , Fastboot mailing list , Morton Andrew Morton , "Eric W. Biederman" , galak@kernel.crashing.org, gregkh@suse.de, bcrl@kvack.org, Dave Jiang , Maneesh Soni , Murali Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/10] 64 bit resources core changes Message-ID: <20060323210128.GP27946@ftp.linux.org.uk> References: <20060323195752.GD7175@in.ibm.com> <20060323195944.GE7175@in.ibm.com> <1143145335.3147.52.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 946 Lines: 22 On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 12:52:42PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > > hmmmm are there any platforms where unsigned long long is > 64 bits? > > (and yes it would be nice if there was a u64 printf flag ;) > > Adding a new printf flag is technically _trivial_. > > The problem is getting gcc not to warn about it every time it sees it > (while not losing the gcc format string checking entirely). Do newer gcc's > allow some way of saying "this flag takes this type" for extended format > definitions? Well... We could implement that in sparse and tell gcc to stop bothering with that warning. At which point it becomes trivial to extend... - 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/