> >>>>> "Bryan" == B James Phillippe <bryan@terran.org> writes:
>
> Bryan> Hello, I'm looking at a kernel driver module which makes use of
> Bryan> the gcc-ism of "long long" to represent a 64-bit variable on
> Bryan> 32-bit architectures. I assume that this takes some kind of
...
> I am curious, what sorta device requires 64 bit entities on a 32 bit
> architecture?
Some pieces of the kernel are using it; struct file_operations, for
instance. However, the driver I was referring to uses a long long as a
byte counter. I'll have to look closer to determine the extent of the
performance requirement (if any).
thanks,
-bp
-- B. James Phillippe . bryan@terran.org Software Engineer, WGT Inc. . http://www.terran.org/~bryan
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