On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 05:21:12PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > include/asm-mips*/unaligned.h uses different terminology for the same sizes, > sometimes even in the same file, making things a bit confusing: > - double vs. quad > - word vs. long > - halfword vs. word > > Which set of terms is preferred, so we can increase consistency? The MIPS terminology is: - 2 bytes - halfword - 4 bytes - word - 8 bytes - doubleword - 16 bytes - quadword Unfortunately part of the industry have a different idea of what the size of a word should be, so for example on i386 the use of the terms is: - 2 bytes word - 4 bytes doubleword - 8 bytes quadword At times it's hard to avoid confusion; in general I therefore prefer to avoid these terms or their abreviations but there are places like the old assembler implementation of inw() where both are used next to each other ... Ralf
