From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] use simple_strtoul for unsigned kernel parameters
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 08:20:29 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0308180817360.1672-100000@home.osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030818101524.5B12D2C019@lists.samba.org>
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).
Not likely something we want to port Linux to, admittedly.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-18 15:20 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 [this message]
2003-08-18 15:31 ` Jamie Lokier
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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