On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 09:42:56PM +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> and I expect it will be this time too. It's just a printk! Who cares if it
> wastes a few bytes. It's even conceivable that if we use this idiom heavily
> enough, some gcc boffin will take the time to optimize away the useless
> conversions.
The issue of casting was never successfully treated by any of the approaches
that were presented, except by Neil's llsect() function. It's shorter than
(long long)sect and has type safety, so let's just use it.
-ben
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