RE: [PATCH 1/12] generic *_bit()

[Paul Mackerras]

Chen, Kenneth W writes:

> Christoph Hellwig wrote on Wednesday, February 01, 2006 10:03 AM
> > Because they are defined to operate on arrays of unsigned long
> 
> I think these should be defined to operate on arrays of unsigned int.
> Bit is a bit, no matter how many byte you load (8/16/32/64), you can
> only operate on just one bit.

Christoph is right.  Changing to unsigned int would change the layout
on big-endian 64-bit platforms.

Paul.
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