Re: [RFC][PATCH] A generic boolean

[Jes Sorensen]

Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Jes Sorensen <jes@xxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > Andreas Schwab wrote:
> > > Jes Sorensen <jes@xxxxxxx> writes:
> > >
> > > > We know that today long is the only one that differs and that
> > > > m68k has horrible natural alignment rules for historical reasons, but
> > > > besides that it's pretty sane.
> > > Try determining the alignment of u64 on i386.  You will be surprised.
> > If thats the case, then thats really scary :-(
>
> That's how the ABI is defined.

That the ABI for long long or the ABI for uint64_t? Given that u64 is a
Linux thing, it ought to be ok to do the alignment the right way within
the kernel.

Cheers,
Jes

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