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Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 08:47:58 -0500 (EST)
From: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
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To: David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se>
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        Rusty trivial patch monkey Russell 
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Subject: Re: save_flags() should take unsigned long
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On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, David Weinehall wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 07:46:53PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > ...and here's patch to fix it... Please apply.
> 
> The correct way to fix this would be:
> 
> <in suitable header-file; suggestions welcome>
> typedef flags_t unsigned long;

I don't think it takes an 'unsigned long'. Instead, it takes 'size_t'.
This makes it work in all architectures because 'size_t' is the
size of a register.


Cheers,
Dick Johnson

Penguin : Linux version 2.4.18 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).

                 Windows-2000/Professional isn't.

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