Re: [2.6 patch] asm-generic/int-ll64.h: always provide __{s,u}64

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Mon May 19 2008 - 18:03:23 EST


Adrian Bunk wrote:
Several compilers offer "long long" without claiming to support C99.

Considering how frequent __s64/__u64 are used our userspace headers are anyway unusable without __s64/__u64 available.

Always offer __s64/__u64 to non-gcc non-C99 compilers - if they provide "long long" that makes the headers compiling and if they don't they are anyway screwed.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxxx>

This makes sense to me (I did, however, not want to make that change part of the same changeset - one change at a time.)

The main reason for not just blindly using "long long" has to do with the use of gcc -ansi -pedantic in userspace, which is already taken care of by the use of __extension__ in the __GNUC__ clause.

Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>

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