Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932410AbWJIInP (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Oct 2006 04:43:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932409AbWJIInP (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Oct 2006 04:43:15 -0400 Received: from emailer.gwdg.de ([134.76.10.24]:22964 "EHLO emailer.gwdg.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932405AbWJIInN (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Oct 2006 04:43:13 -0400 Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 10:36:12 +0200 (MEST) From: Jan Engelhardt To: David Howells 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] In-Reply-To: <5267.1160381168@redhat.com> Message-ID: References: <20061006133414.9972.79007.stgit@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> <20061006203919.GS2563@parisc-linux.org> <5267.1160381168@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Report: Content analysis: 0.0 points, 6.0 required _SUMMARY_ Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 749 Lines: 22 >> >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? typedef unsigned int u32; Though this should not be seen in the linux kernel. -`J' -- - 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/