Re: [PATCH] Introduce compat_u64 and compat_s64 types

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 14:40 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > That is broken on all non-x86 architectures, 
> 
> It cannot be broken, it just might be somewhat slower

It is because there is already code out there that expects the padding
(32 bits userland code that is).

Ben.


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