On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 08:04:07AM -0500, Isaac Dupree wrote: > > We've been using "unsigned long" for storing virtual addresses in the > > Linux kernel for 10+ years and it works just fine. :-) > > and Linux kernel uses GCC compiler in precise ways > > I believe that ptrdiff_t is the proper standardized type for an integer the > size of a pointer. except... it's always signed :-) > > Can you just use pointer types and pointer arithmetic? > > also, standards aside, a common way to get such a type, is "configure" script > testing various possibilities like "unsigned long" and "unsigned long long" > and seeing which one is the right size for the target architecture. (not sure > if that works when cross-compiling though)
I think we're already using longs this way in quite a few places. It's not such a big deal IMHO. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all." _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
