* Stephen Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, 26 Feb 2016 09:44:00 -0800 "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > 
> > __u64 is okay, "unsigned long" is really messy in the presence of 32-on-64 
> > bit ABIs...
> 
> Yeah, but unfortunately, any 64 bit scalar type here will change the
> alignment of the enclosing unions on (some) 32 bit platforms and thus
> break the ABI.

Then a different solution has to be found.

Thanks,

        Ingo

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