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By author: Russell King - ARM Linux Admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.arm
>
> Chris Rutter writes:
> > I thought it possible that there are widespread portability assumptions
> > made in the Linux kernel that made that irrelevant. I wasn't making a
> > value judgement.
>
> The assumptions are that:
>
> __u8, __u16, __u32 are all unsigned quantities of the indicated size.
> __s8, __s16, __s32 are all signed quantities of the indicated size.
>
> sizeof(unsigned long) >= sizeof(unsigned int) (standard ANSI)
> sizeof(unsigned int) >= sizeof(unsigned short) (standard ANSI)
> sizeof(unsigned short) >= sizeof(unsigned char) (standard ANSI)
>
There is also an assuption that uintptr_t is unsigned long. This is
not standard.
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