On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, ServeRAID For Linux wrote:
> That's only the tip of the iceberg for the "variable casting" and other
> changes that are required to make the ips driver completely safe on IA64.
> I have made all the changes necessary and we are currently in test mode
> with the next release of ips ( Version 4.80.xx ), which will be completely
> 64-bit safe. I hope to make it available to all sometime in September,
> when we have completed our testing with it on both 32 and 64 bit Linux.
>
I don't think that "unsigned long" is the correct data type.
Isn't there a data type that means "the largest unsigned integer type
that fits into a register on the target..."? I was told that that's what
"size_t" means. If so, all the flags variables <everywhere> should be
changed to this type. If not, then somebody should define a "flags_t"
type. With the new 64-bit machines, this is going to bite over and
over again until something like this is done.
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.1 on an i686 machine (799.53 BogoMips).
I was going to compile a list of innovations that could be
attributed to Microsoft. Once I realized that Ctrl-Alt-Del
was handled in the BIOS, I found that there aren't any.
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