From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 11:24:39 -0400 On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 04:16:54PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > __uXX is in no way related to gcc. In this context it is. Programmers needed a fixed-sized type, and what gcc had was what they used, simply because other compilers were not relevant "back in the old days" WRT user-visible kernel headers. Show me a compiler that we should care about that does not provide long long support or some other suitable way to get a __u64 type. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
