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

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Date:	Fri, 20 May 2011 09:48:27 +0300
From:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
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 08:20:42AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> 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.

And alignment will match, on any arch, now and in future?
I don't think so.
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