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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/19] UML - Tidy stub management code
On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 06:01:12PM +0800, WANG Cong wrote:
> > + /*
> > + * When the stub stops, we find the following values on the
> > + * beginning of the stack:
> > + * (long) return_value
> > + * (long) offset to failed sycall data (0 if no error)
> > + */
> > + ret = *((unsigned long *) stack);
>
>
> I am afraid the value will be truncated on 64bit machine, since
> 'ret' is 'int' while 'stack' points to an 'unsigned long'.
>
> Is this expected?

That's dubious, but I don't think it breaks anything. On LE, *(int *)
and *(long *) will give you the same answer, and the value here is an
error code, which fits into 32 bits.

Jeff

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