On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 11:42:41AM +0100, John Harrison wrote: > I'm not convinced the benefit is worth the > confusion and maintenance risk. E.g. is unsigned long guaranteed to > always and ever be sufficient for a pointer?
Yes, unsigned long will always be sufficient for a kernel pointer. I'm sure there is a classic rant from Linus about this somewhere... Quite a few core structs will pass around unsigned long instead of pointers, which can be quite annoying when trying to use! -Chris -- Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre _______________________________________________ Intel-gfx mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx
