linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kstrtox: drop kstrtol()/kstrtoul() when possible

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Message-ID: <BANLkTi=2yReXfrr7swhys7TgkuJ5r97jqQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 20 May 2011 08:20:42 +0200
From:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	arnd@...db.de, mmarek@...e.cz, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kstrtox: drop kstrtol()/kstrtoul() when possible

On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 08:15, Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com> wrote:
> If "long" and "long long" types are identical at runtime,
> kstrtol() can be aliased to kstrtoll().
>
> Unfortunately, one can't write
>
>        #if sizeof(long) == sizeof(long long) ...

One can write #ifdef CONFIG_64BIT instead.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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