Re: /proc/interrupts: reformat yes/no?

Andrew Mileski (dmtech@magi.com)
Wed, 13 Mar 1996 10:22:58 -0500 (EST)


>> >> |- Resource Region -|- Driver --|--- Ints --|- Flags
>> >> 00000000 - 00000000 : timer : 136239230 :
>> > 01234567
>> >Only 32bit wide.. you've lost already - 64bit machines may have resources
>> >in high memory space
>> Naaww...whatever the uint is on the machine. On an Alpha it will
>> automatically be 16 digits.
>But does the
>|- Resource Region -|- ...
>expand of its own accord ?
>Also on the Alpa a unit is 8 digits and a pointer is 16.

Yes, it expands at run-time (haven't got a fail-safe compile-time
method yet).

Doesn't matter to me what it is based on. Would sizeof( void * )
be better?

-- Andrew E. Mileski --
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