[Lguest] [patch] u32 pointer nightmare .....

Jes Sorensen jes at sgi.com
Fri Aug 31 17:04:12 EST 2007


Rusty Russell wrote:
> It was explicit, actually.  I wasn't sure we want to insist that
> userspace long == kernel long.  But given the nature of lguest, that
> might be fine.

Hi Rusty,

Actually, for all Linux ports you are guaranteed
sizeof(long)=sizeof(void *) - except when running legacy in emulation
mode (ie. ppc32 on ppc64, ia32 on x86_64, etc).

> Just want to check that the x86-64 people are happy with this fix.

I threatend them with it already :-)

Cheers,
Jes





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