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From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] use simple_strtoul for unsigned kernel parameters
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 16:31:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030818153106.GA8044@mail.jlokier.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0308180817360.1672-100000@home.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > Half right.  The second part is fine, the first part is redundant
> > AFAICT.
> 
> Well, in theory short/int/long can all be the same size and thus a
> "unsigned short" may not actually fit in a "long". I think that was the
> case on the old 64-bit cray machines, for example ("char" was a very slow
> 8-bit thing, everything else was purely 64-bit).

There's the SHARC and C4x architectures, where "char" is 32 bits, the
same as "short", "int" and "long".

-- Jamie

  reply	other threads:[~2003-08-18 15:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-18  0:46 [PATCH] use simple_strtoul for unsigned kernel parameters Jamie Lokier
2003-08-18 10:13 ` Rusty Russell
2003-08-18 12:09   ` Jamie Lokier
2003-08-18 15:32     ` Rusty Russell
2003-08-18 15:20   ` Linus Torvalds
2003-08-18 15:31     ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2003-08-18 16:43     ` Alan Cox
2003-08-18 17:18 John Bradford
2003-08-18 17:15 ` Larry McVoy
2003-08-18 19:17   ` Alan Cox
2003-08-18 17:40 John Bradford
2003-08-18 17:39 ` Larry McVoy
2003-08-18 17:59 John Bradford

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