Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932377AbWJIIGf (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Oct 2006 04:06:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932376AbWJIIGe (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Oct 2006 04:06:34 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:33198 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932367AbWJIIGd (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Oct 2006 04:06:33 -0400 From: David Howells In-Reply-To: References: <20061006133414.9972.79007.stgit@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> <20061006203919.GS2563@parisc-linux.org> To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: Matthew Wilcox , torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org, sfr@canb.auug.org.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] LOG2: Implement a general integer log2 facility in the kernel [try #4] X-Mailer: MH-E 8.0; nmh 1.1; GNU Emacs 22.0.50 Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 09:06:08 +0100 Message-ID: <5267.1160381168@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 703 Lines: 17 Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >Were you planning on porting Linux to a machine with non-8-bit-bytes any > >time soon? Because there's a lot more to fix than this. > > I am considering the case [assuming 8-bit-byte machines] where > sizeof(u32) is not 4. Though I suppose GCC will probably make a 32-bit > type up if the hardware does not know one. If the machine has 8-bit bytes, how can sizeof(u32) be anything other than 4? David - 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/