Re: [PATCH 13/21] [PATCH] change bitwise operations to get a voidparameter.

[H. Peter Anvin]

Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 December 2007 09:52:36 Glauber de Oliveira Costa wrote:
> > This patch changes the bitwise operations in bitops.h to get
> > a void pointers as a parameter. Before this patch, a lot of warnings
> > can be seen. They're gone after it.
>
> No, this is a backwards step!  These warnings are important for 
> non-arch-specific code: I fought hard to get them made into unsigned longs.
>
> But I'm happy for this to be applied as is, then I'll grab the git tree, 
> revert it and fix the warnings...

Yes, it's particularly nasty as it'll work fine on littleendian arches, 
and fail on bigendian arches...

	-hpa
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