On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 19:55 +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 08:04:07AM -0500, Isaac Dupree wrote: > > > We've been using "unsigned long" for storing virtual addresses in the > > > Linux kernel for 10+ years and it works just fine. :-) > > > > and Linux kernel uses GCC compiler in precise ways > > > > I believe that ptrdiff_t is the proper standardized type for an integer the > > size of a pointer. except... it's always signed :-) > > > > Can you just use pointer types and pointer arithmetic? > > > > also, standards aside, a common way to get such a type, is "configure" > > script > > testing various possibilities like "unsigned long" and "unsigned long long" > > and seeing which one is the right size for the target architecture. (not > > sure > > if that works when cross-compiling though) > > I think we're already using longs this way in quite a few places. It's not > such a big deal IMHO.
I was considering making grub_size_t long and grub_ssize_t unsigned long. I remember that it required many changes in string formats, so I didn't feel it would be justified. But we could try it again. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel