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Date:   Fri, 9 Sep 2022 08:06:42 +0200
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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http://daringfireball.net/2007/07/on_top

On Fri, Sep 09, 2022 at 08:01:29AM +0200, Nam Cao wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> Just out of curiosity, how can we be sure that sizeof(unsigned int)
> is never 8 bytes? The C standard doesn't say anything about this, as
> far as I know.

Do you know of a Linux architecture that this is true?

Linux has a few more requirements than C does (i.e. an unsigned long has
to hold a pointer) so don't go by the C requirements please.

thanks,

greg k-h