Re: [RFC 7/7] ext3 blocks: convert ext3_fsblk_t to sector_t

On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 11:19 -0700, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 09:42 -0700, Mingming Cao wrote:

> > But checking the rest of 64 bit arch where sector_t is defined, found
> > previous assumption not always true: about on 64 bit machine
> > sector_t/u64 is always unsigned long. At least, cscope shows asm-sh
> > arch, BITS_PER_LONG is 64, while, u64/sector_t is unsigned long long, so
> > this won't work for this case.
> 
> It should work on 64-bit machines also as "long long" is equal to "long"
> (64-bit) on these machines (verified it atleast on x86-64, ppc64)

What do you mean by "equal"?  Yes they are both 64 bits, but I believe
the compiler will still complain if you print a long with %llu or a long
long with %lu.



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