Re: [PATCH] posix_types.h: make __NFDBITS match glibc definition

From: Jeff Law
Date: Tue Jul 24 2012 - 15:19:25 EST


On 07/24/12 12:24, Josh Boyer wrote:
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 11:20:11AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

+#define __NFDBITS (8 * (int) sizeof(long int))

I don't know if the type change is needed, but who the hell uses "long int"?

Not strictly, no. I believe in my brief tests, just the int cast was
sufficient. I can respin if you'd like. I probably need to anyway to
CC stable on this.
All that's strictly necessary is that cast to (int). That avoids the problem.

Jeff
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