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Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 08:20:29 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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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