[PATCH] ppc64: fix semtimedop compat syscall

[David S. Miller]

On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 13:29:22 +1000
Stephen Rothwell <sfr at canb.auug.org.au> wrote:

> > It all depends upon what the processor ABI says about incoming arguments,
> > specifically whether the caller is expected to sign extend them or not.
> > 
> > If the caller is expected to sign extend, then "(long) (int) x" will get
> > optimized away by the compiler.
> 
> Even if x is declared as unsigned int?

No, not in that case.  I was mentioning the case where x is declared
as a signed int.