Re: e2fsprogs conflict with asm-sparc64/types.h

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From: "Tom \"spot\" Callaway" <tcallawa@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 17:21:08 -0400

> When building e2fsprogs, it checks to see if long long is valid on the
> platform, and detects that it is for sparc64. Thus, it defines:
> 
> #define __S64_TYPEDEF __signed__ long long
> #define __U64_TYPEDEF unsigned long long
> 
> Unfortunately, that conflicts with asm-sparc64/types.h, which says only
> "long", not "long long" for these typedefs.
> 
> Is the kernel wrong? Or is e2fsprogs?

The kernel is right.

Several other 64-bit platforms happen to choose to use
"long long" for the 64-bit types, but this is absolutely
not universal and is a per-platform decision to make.
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