Re: [PATCH] ia64 basic __user annotations

[Tony Luck]

On 9/28/05, Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>         * uintptr_t is unsigned long, not long

> -       long __gu_err = -EFAULT, __gu_val = 0;                                          \
> -                                                                                       \
> +       long __gu_err = -EFAULT;                                                        \
> +       unsigned long __gu_val = 0;                                                     \

Too subtle for me ... what's happening here?  If you change this, then
should you also change "register long __gu_r9 asm ("r9");" in __get_user_size
to be unsigned long as well?

-Tony
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