On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 20:45 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Rusty Russell wrote: > > > > It'd be nicer if there were a "struct boot_params" declaration, but we > > can't have everything. > > It's in my patchset-under-development. Ah ha: excellent! > > +typedef unsigned long long u64; > > typedef uint32_t u32; > > typedef uint16_t u16; > > typedef uint8_t u8; > > Why not uint64_t to go along with all the other defines? Because then it's a PITA to printf(): x86-64 has uint64_t as "unsigned long". So the lguest64 guys will add all kinds of horrible casts. This has the same effect, but ironically is more portable. Rusty. _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
