Re: [PATCH] linux-2.417 devfs 64bit portablility issue

From: Carsten Otte (COTTE@de.ibm.com)
Date: Tue Feb 12 2002 - 06:18:38 EST

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David S. Miller <davem@redhat.com> wrote:
>No, I tried to do that once, but the casts become stupid
>and ugly.

I agree, and with explicit casts the compiler still would'nt even print a
warning
when the bitops are incorrectly used.

w/kind regards
Carsten Otte

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