On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 11:42:30AM +0100, Andreas Färber wrote:
> Am 05.02.2013 01:07, schrieb Peter Maydell:
> > On 4 February 2013 23:52, Richard Henderson <r...@twiddle.net> wrote:
> >> On 2013-02-04 15:30, David Gibson wrote:
> >>> Anthony, Richard, anyone?
> >>>
> >>> Please apply - qemu has now been build-broken on all big endian
> >>> platforms for a month.
> >>
> >>
> >> I know.  See also my bswap.h patch which also fixes the width
> >> of long vs uintptr_t.  No one seems willing to pick these up...
> > 
> > In both cases, the patch:
> >  * was sent out after the soft freeze
> >  * doesn't have a "for-1.4" tag
> >  * doesn't have a summary line that clearly says "fixes build
> >    failure" either
> >  * hasn't got a Reviewed-by: tag from anybody
> 
> I ack'ed it, which in my terminology usually means that I reviewed and
> tested it.
> 
> > 
> > so I'm not terribly surprised they haven't got picked up.
> > You could start by reviewing each others' patches :-)
> 
> Personally I see no reason to keep around misnamed HOST_LONG_BITS at all
> when we can easily calculate its value using sizeof(uintptr_t) * 8 or
> replace it by different conditions as suggested by rth. I thus prefer

Ok, I missed rth's patch to do this differently.  Note that sizeof()
will not work in this case, because we need the correct value at cpp
time.

> his patch and have been waiting for Blue to pick it up for 1.4.

Sure, whatever.  Can we please just get whichever damn fix *in*.

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