Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 24 Jul 1999 11:02:54 +0930 (CST) | From | Alan Modra <> | Subject | Re: The great alpha compile warning hunt |
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On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Albert D. Cahalan spouts: > > You should UPcast to a long in most cases, not downcast to an int. > > This is not good. Every printk() with the problem ends up with > an extra character in the format string and possibly extra overhead. > For what? So you can have a 5 GB structure in kernel space?
So you can see when the top half of a 64 bit pointer has been trashed.
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