linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add C99-style constructor macros for specific-sized integers

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Date:	Sun, 02 Mar 2008 20:45:30 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Segher Boessenkool <segher@...nel.crashing.org>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Arch Mailing List <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Brownell <dbrownell@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add C99-style constructor macros for specific-sized
 integers

Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> 
> Do these new macros really buy anything over just writing LL in the
> few places that 64-bit constants are used?
> 

It gives you macros that matches the s64/u64 et al definitions are, thus 
avoiding another class of spurious warnings.

	-hpa
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