From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272048AbTHRPbU (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Aug 2003 11:31:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272050AbTHRPbT (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Aug 2003 11:31:19 -0400 Received: from mail.jlokier.co.uk ([81.29.64.88]:1921 "EHLO mail.jlokier.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S272048AbTHRPbQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Aug 2003 11:31:16 -0400 Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 16:31:06 +0100 From: Jamie Lokier To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Rusty Russell , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] use simple_strtoul for unsigned kernel parameters Message-ID: <20030818153106.GA8044@mail.jlokier.co.uk> References: <20030818101524.5B12D2C019@lists.samba.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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