Re: [patch] x86, UV: integer wrap bug in uv_hub_ipi_value()

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 11/20/2012 08:27 AM, Russ Anderson wrote:
> I very much agree.  I prefer u32, u64 (etc) because they are
> unambiguous.  It removes all doubt as to the actual meaning.
>
> Conversly, the fact that "long" has different meanings makes
> it at best problematic.  Was the code written assuming "long"
> was 32 or 64 bits?  Having data types that can have different
> sizes is just asking for trouble.

In the Linux kernel context, "long" effectively means the native size 
(size_t/intptr_t/ptrdiff_t).

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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