On 01/22/2013 06:14:53 PM, Stepan Moskovchenko wrote:
Add the %pa format specifier for printing a phys_addr_t
type and its derivative types (such as resource_size_t),
since the physical address size on some platforms can vary
based on build options, regardless of the native integer
type.
Signed-off-by: Stepan Moskovchenko <stepanm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Ok, I know I'm late to the party, but doesn't LP64 apply here? Are we
really capable of building on a target where "long" and "pointer" are
different sizes? Last I checked the kernel was full of that assumption
because there was an actual standard and we demanded that the compiler
building us comply with it, just like MacOS X and the BSDs do:
Standard:
http://www.unix.org/whitepapers/64bit.html
Rationale:
http://www.unix.org/version2/whatsnew/lp64_wp.html
Insane legacy reasons Windows decided to be "special":
http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/01/31/363790.aspx
Thus "unsigned long" should by definition be big enough. Using unsigned
long long means you're doing 64 bit math on 32 bit targets for no
apparent reason.
What did I miss?
Rob--
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