Re: [PATCH][TRIVIAL] Remove bogus "value 0x37ffffff truncated to 0x37ffffff" warning.

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 10 January 2004 15:14, Bart Samwel wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
[...]
>> Which is correct?
>
>This is a C macro. Apparently in your arch it isn't used in any
>assembler code. The reason that i386 doesn't cast to unsigned long
> is that casts aren't an assembler construct, and this macro is used
> in arch/i386/boot/setup.S. Also, PAGE_OFFSET includes an (unsigned
> long) cast as well, __PAGE_OFFSET doesn't, and that explains why
> i386 uses __PAGE_OFFSET.
>
>-- Bart

Thanks, that clears it up to me.

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