On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Russell King wrote:
> > i'm not so sure about flags_t. 'unsigned long' worked pretty well so far,
> > and i do not see the need for a more complex (or more opaque) irqflags
> > type.
>
> A feature request then. Type checking. Too many people try to stuff
> the value into an int or signed long.
the next portion of the quote deals with this:
> > It's not that we confuse flags with some other flag all that
> > frequently that would necessiate some structure-based more abstract
> > protection of these variables.
are you sure type-checking is really needed? Sure people can mess up the
flags variable, but 64-bit archs could do a sizeof at compile-time.
Ingo
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