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Date:	Tue, 24 Jul 2012 13:19:29 -0600
From:	Jeff Law <law@...hat.com>
To:	Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...hat.com>
CC:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] posix_types.h: make __NFDBITS match glibc definition

On 07/24/12 12:24, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 11:20:11AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...hat.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> +#define __NFDBITS      (8 * (int) sizeof(long int))
>>
>> I don't know if the type change is needed, but who the hell uses "long int"?
>
> Not strictly, no.  I believe in my brief tests, just the int cast was
> sufficient.  I can respin if you'd like.  I probably need to anyway to
> CC stable on this.
All that's strictly necessary is that cast to (int).  That avoids the 
problem.

Jeff
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