linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/45] kstrtox: converting strings to integers done (hopefully) right

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Date:	Wed, 8 Dec 2010 10:51:45 +0200
From:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:	Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/45] kstrtox: converting strings to integers done
 (hopefully) right

On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 10:45:33AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tuesday 07 December 2010 10:32:29 Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 10:04:58AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > On Monday 06 December 2010 16:16:36 Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> > >
> > > > It is used by kstrtol() if "long" and "long long" aren't the same type.
> > > > I can't ifdef it because gcc doesn't allow "#if sizeof(long long) == ".
> > > > "Do not use" hints "use kstrtol()".
> > > 
> > > Can't you use #ifdef CONFIG_64BIT to see if long is 64 bit wide?
> > 
> > I could, but there are no defines for alignment.
> 
> Not sure what you mean here.

One can't write:

	#if sizeof(long) == sizeof(long long) && alignof(long) == alignof(long long)

and there are no _ALIGNOF_LONG or something like that.

> All architectures always naturally align 'long' variables --
> we rely on that elsewhere already. 'long long' is misaligned on x86-32 and
> possibly some other 32 bit architectures, but since that should not cause
> any problems.

The point is that code as written doesn't care and correct wrt alignment.

> Another option would be to export just the strto{u,s}{8,16,32,64}
> functions and define the inline wrappers conditionally on CONFIG_64BIT.

This means more ifdefs. Maybe someone could ifdeflessly fix this later.
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