On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 03:49:14PM -0500, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> That '#define BITS_PER_LONG 32' comes from the following code in
> tools/include/asm-generic/bitsperlong.h:
> 
>   #ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
>   #define BITS_PER_LONG 64
>   #else
>   #define BITS_PER_LONG 32
>   #endif /* CONFIG_64BIT */
> 
> Because objtool doesn't have CONFIG_64BIT defined, it falls through to
> the '#else' condition.  I think tools code shouldn't be relying on
> kernel config options.

Right.. __LP64__ would work in general I think, or __SIZEOF_LONG__ *
__CHAR_BIT__.

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