On 04/22/2013 05:15 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> (It turns out that any use of "UINT_MAX" for a "long" value also results in
> this warning, because we define it as "~0ul", so there are other cases of
> spurious things where we *intentionally* drop the high bits).
>
I'm responsible for this particular piece of drain bramage... we should
probably just open-code the correct types conditional on the sizes like
userspace does.
-hpa