Messages in this thread | | | From | "Chen, Kenneth W" <> | Subject | RE: [PATCH 5/6] fix warning on test_ti_thread_flag() | Date | Wed, 25 Jan 2006 12:02:21 -0800 |
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Geert Uytterhoeven wrote on Wednesday, January 25, 2006 9:19 AM > > I don't think you need to change the flags size. > > Passing a pointer to a 32-bit entity to a function that takes a > pointer to a 64-bit entity is a classical endianness bug. So it's > better to change it, before people copy the code to a big endian > platform.
Well, x86-64 and linux-ia64 both use little endian. I don't understand why you are barking at us with big endian issue.
- Ken
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