On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 12:48:04AM +0200, Dag Arne Osvik wrote: > unsigned long happens to coincide with uint_fast32_t for x86 and x86-64, > but there's no guarantee that it will on other architectures. And, at > least in theory, long may even provide less than 32 bits.
To port on such platform we'd have to do a lot of rewriting - so much that the impact of this issue will be lost in noise. Look, it's very simple: * too many people blindly assume that all world is 32bit l-e. * too many of those who try to do portable code have very little idea of what that means - see the drivers that try and mix e.g. size_t with int, etc. * stdint is not widely understood, to put it mildly. * ...fast... types have very unfortunate names - these are guaranteed to create a lot of confusion. * pretty much everything in the kernel assumes that 4 = sizeof(int) <= sizeof(long) = sizeof(pointer) = sizeof(size_t) = sizeof(ptrdiff_t) <= sizeof(long long) = 8 and any platform that doesn't satisfy the above will require very serious work on porting anyway. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/