Re: [PATCH] change b_size to size_t

[Benjamin LaHaise]

On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 09:28:58AM -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> How about doing this ? Change b_state to u32 and change b_size
> to "size_t". This way, we don't increase the overall size of
> the structure on 64-bit machines. Isn't it ?

I was thinking of that too, but that doesn't work with the bit operations 
on big endian machines (which require unsigned long).  Oh well, I guess 
that even with adding an extra 8 bytes on x86-64 we're still at the 96 
bytes, or 92 bytes if the atomic_t is put at the end of the struct.

		-ben
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