Re: SPAM[RBL] Re: C99 types VS Linus types

Vojtech Pavlik (vojtech@suse.cz)
Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:08:51 +0200


On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 07:37:26PM +0200, Bernardo Innocenti wrote:

> On Sunday 06 July 2003 14:23, Philippe Elie wrote:
>
> > alpha user space .h define uint64_t as unsigned long,
> > include/asm-alpha/types.h defines it as unsigned long long.
>
> Why is that? Isn't uint64_t supposed to be _always_ a 64bit
> unsigned integer? Either the kernel or the user space might
> be doing the wrong thing...
>
> I've Cc'd the Alpha mantainer to make him aware of this
> problem.

I suppose both an 'unsigned long' and 'unsigned long long' are 64-bit
entities on the Alpha (which is a 64-bit architecture).

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
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