Re: [patch] cli()/sti() cleanup, 2.5.27-A2

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> > > It's not that we confuse flags with some other flag all that
> > > frequently that would necessiate some structure-based more abstract
> > > protection of these variables.
> 
> are you sure type-checking is really needed? Sure people can mess up the
> flags variable, but 64-bit archs could do a sizeof at compile-time.

Yes, it is needed; type-checking can be easily implemented as 

{
	unsigned long foo;
	(&foo == &arg);
}

 -- that gives warning when arg is not unsigned long.
								Pavel

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