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Re: Eliminating grub_size_t
From: |
Pavel Roskin |
Subject: |
Re: Eliminating grub_size_t |
Date: |
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:52:26 -0400 |
On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 21:42 +0300, Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote:
> > I think I'll try to make grub_size_t 32-bit everywhere and see if it's
> > going to make any difference or help discover some issues.
>
> Why? I would let it be optimal type for current memory bus width.
int is supposed to be the optimal type, and int is 32-bit on 64-bit
platforms we support. As far as I know, the x86_64 machine code
actually defaults to 32-bit for all arguments except memory addresses.
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Regards,
Pavel Roskin
- Eliminating grub_size_t, Pavel Roskin, 2008/07/01
- Re: Eliminating grub_size_t, Javier Martín, 2008/07/01
- Re: Eliminating grub_size_t, Pavel Roskin, 2008/07/02
- Re: Eliminating grub_size_t, Vesa Jääskeläinen, 2008/07/02
- Re: Eliminating grub_size_t, Pavel Roskin, 2008/07/02
- Re: Eliminating grub_size_t, Marco Gerards, 2008/07/03
- Re: Eliminating grub_size_t, Pavel Roskin, 2008/07/03
- Re: Eliminating grub_size_t, Vesa Jääskeläinen, 2008/07/03
- Re: Eliminating grub_size_t,
Pavel Roskin <=
- Re: Eliminating grub_size_t, Vesa Jääskeläinen, 2008/07/03
- Re: Eliminating grub_size_t, Pavel Roskin, 2008/07/03
- Re: Eliminating grub_size_t, Marco Gerards, 2008/07/03
- Re: Eliminating grub_size_t, Pavel Roskin, 2008/07/03