From: Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond•net.au>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k•org>
Cc: ppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org>,
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb•auug.org.au>,
ppc64-dev <linuxppc64-dev@ozlabs•org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] combining header files
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 22:36:01 +1030 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050309120601.GN15642@bubble.modra.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0503091038520.22598@numbat.sonytel.be>
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 10:40:13AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Alan Modra wrote:
> > 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;
> > }
>
> If size matters, why not use an explicitly sized type like s64 to make it
> explicit?
Sure, that's even better.
--
Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-09 12:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-09 1:03 [RFC][PATCH] combining header files Stephen Rothwell
2005-03-09 1:19 ` Alan Modra
2005-03-09 9:40 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2005-03-09 12:06 ` Alan Modra [this message]
2005-03-09 20:01 ` Linas Vepstas
2005-03-10 2:42 ` Stephen Rothwell
2005-03-14 19:36 ` Linas Vepstas
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