linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] LZO de/compression support

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Date:	Tue, 29 May 2007 23:10:05 +0200 (MEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
cc:	Nitin Gupta <nitingupta910@...il.com>,
	Daniel Hazelton <dhazelton@...er.net>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-mm-cc@...top.org,
	linuxcompressed-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Richard Purdie <richard@...nedhand.com>,
	Bret Towe <magnade@...il.com>,
	Satyam Sharma <satyam.sharma@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] LZO de/compression support - take 6


On May 28 2007 19:11, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>
>I have not seen any explanations:
>- Why did the upstream author write the code that way?

I guess it's along the lines of
- portability

(note how this contradicts itself). Really. I have yet to
figure out why everyone invents their own xxx32_t types,
like e.g. glib. well, integer types, one might understand, but when it
comes to gchar or gpointer, that's just plain microsoft-style
(think LPCSTR and LPCVOID...)


	Jan
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