Re: [PATCH 01/24] types: create <asm-generic/int-*.h>

[H. Peter Anvin]

Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> So ... given all this, why do we define s64 to be 'long' on some
> architectures and 'long long' on others?  It seems to actively _hinder_
> passing it to printf(), so there must be some other good reason that
> I'm missing to not make it 'long long' everywhere.

Well, compatibility with userspace is probably one aspect of that. 
x86-64 is the odd man out there, it defines __s64 as "long long" even 
for userspace, even though int64_t from <stdint.h> is "long".  This, 
IMO, is the Wrong Thing, but it's a separate set of changes.

The right thing to do is probably to always use "long long" in the 
kernel, while defining __s64 et al as "long" on 64-bit platforms when 
not under __KERNEL__.

Again, this is a separate set of changes from this patchset, which is 
just a code transformation.

	-hpa

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