[PATCH] ppc64: fix semtimedop compat syscall

Stephen Rothwell sfr at canb.auug.org.au
Wed Mar 23 09:34:41 EST 2005


On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 07:19:31 +1100 Paul Mackerras <paulus at samba.org> wrote:
>
> Arnd Bergmann writes:
> 
> > One problem is that sign extension can not be expressed in architecture
> > independent C code.
> 
> On which architectures does (long)(int) x not give the desired result?

Presumably for a u32 function argument x which has been zero extended?

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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr at canb.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/
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