On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 03:00:16AM -0400, Jean Delvare wrote: > Hi Guenter, > > On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 12:04:24 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: > > Using integer variable types for register to data conversions can cause > > overflows especially for power calculations, which are in microwatt. > > Use long variables instead. > > I have no objection, using longs for calculations certainly makes > sense, however does it really help in practice? I thought that > sizeof(int) == sizeof(long) for all architectures on Linux? > No ... for x86_64 long is 64 bit and int is 32 bit. I'll may have to switch to "long long" at some point, though, or maybe s64. Still hesitating to do that. > > > > Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Either way: > > Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Thanks, Guenter _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors
