linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] Replaces long number representation by BIT() macro

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Message-ID: <20190702164850.GP18316@gate.crashing.org>
Date:   Tue, 2 Jul 2019 11:48:50 -0500
From:   Segher Boessenkool <segher@...nel.crashing.org>
To:     Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
Cc:     Leonardo Bras <leonardo@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Replaces long number representation by BIT() macro

On Tue, Jul 02, 2019 at 11:16:35AM -0500, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 03, 2019 at 01:19:34AM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > What we could do is switch to the `UL` macro from include/linux/const.h,
> > rather than using our own ASM_CONST.
> 
> You need gas 2.28 or later for that though.

Oh, but apparently I cannot read.  That macro should work fine.


Segher