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From: Isaac Dupree <ml@isaac.cedarswampstudios.org>
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 08:04:07 -0500

> David Miller wrote:
> > "unsigned long" is always safe because it is going to be
> > the largest natural word size on the machine, at least
> > as large as a pointer will be.
> 
> er... C standard doesn't guarantee this, and I think that Windows in fact has 
> 32-bit longs on machines with 64-bit pointers

I look forward to that MSVC compile of sparc64 GRUB.

Anyways I'm using grub_uint64_t in the current spin of my
patches.

You type lawyers win, so let's just drop this.