[RFC][PATCH] combining header files
Alan Modra
amodra at bigpond.net.au
Wed Mar 9 12:19:29 EST 2005
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 12:03:43PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> I would just like to start a discussion about consolidating (some of) the
> ppc and ppc64 header files.
Marvellous! In case it isn't completely obvious, you can often share
structure definitions between ppc32 and ppc64 by judicious selection of
types. eg.
struct stays_the_same {
long long some_64bit_var;
int some_32bit_var;
}
struct bigger_in_64bit {
long var_sized_by_arch;
}
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Alan Modra
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