From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@linuxcare.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 11:20:25 +1100
On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> So... you are choosing to lose extremely valuable optimizations because
> of a few prototype warnings? This logic seems bogus to me... it also
OK, the problem is that gcc expects size_t to be an unsigned int. We use
unsigned long for size_t in the kernel because we want it to be 64 bits on
64-bit PPCs (like it is on the other 64-bit platforms). Gcc doesn't like a
prototype for memcpy which has an unsigned long for the 3rd argument
(unless you use -fno-builtin).
So conditionalize the size_t type in the asm/types.h header based
upon __ppc64__ or whatever.
This argument you make is sort of non-sensical to me :-)
Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
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