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Message-ID: <46B75D3B.6080101@zytor.com>
Date:	Mon, 06 Aug 2007 10:41:15 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Olaf Hering <olh@...e.de>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Michael Matz <matz@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove strict ansi check from __u64 in asm/types.h

Olaf Hering wrote:
> 
> Remove the __STRICT_ANSI__ check from the __u64/__s64 declaration on
> 32bit targets.
> 
> Here is the reason why we think the check should be relaxed:
> 

I think the fact that "long long" was made official C in C99 is good
enough.  Flagging them as __extension__ is okay, I guess, but something
like this should definitely go in.

	-hpa
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