powerpc: Consolidate asm compatibility macros
Paul Mackerras
paulus at samba.org
Mon Nov 7 12:05:23 EST 2005
David Gibson writes:
> Hrm.. I actually deliberately removed the L, on the grounds that
> "long" doesn't necessarily have a consistent meaning between C and
> asm. The idea is that all these operations work on the "natural" size
> for the arch, which is to say the size of the GPRs, which is to say
> the size of a C long.
Yes, long is the type that (happens to) correspond to a register
width, so I like Kumar's suggestion.
Paul.
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