On Thursday 12 June 2008 09:39, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Wed, 11 Jun 2008, Rusty Russell wrote: > > > 4. The modeling of local_t on atomic_t limits it to 32bit! > > > > Again wrong. And adding an exclamation mark doesn't make it true. > > Ewww ... Its atomic_long_t ahh. Ok then there no 32 bit support. What about > pointers? sizeof(long) == sizeof(void *) in Linux, right? If you were to support just a single data type, long would probably be the most useful. Still, it might be more consistent to support int and long, same as atomic. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
