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.
Answering your previous mail, all "real" compilers (AFAIK) define long long.
But that's making an end-run around the argument: why define our own fixed-size types for userland, when userland already has them, as defined by the C standard?
Jeff
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