bitops porting question

Todd Inglett tinglett at vnet.ibm.com
Wed Nov 22 03:10:16 EST 2000


Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> iirc David Miller did a big sweep of such things in the generic source
> when doing the sparc64 port which has exactly the same problem.
> To make sure you should probably define the macro so that you get
> a warning for &flags being anything that unsigned long, e.g. using
> a inline with a prototype and do a regular grep of the tree if anything
> shows these warnings.

Cool.  I was hoping sparc64 cleaned some of this up.  I don't read sparc
asm very well and for lack of comments in sparc64's bitops.S I wasn't
sure if it went 64 bit or not.  I'll change the prototypes to catch
offenders.

BTW, it appears to be working.
--
-todd

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