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Re: 64-bit integeer data types and the Linux kernel
- From: Martin Hunt <hunt at redhat dot com>
- To: Quentin Barnes <qbarnes at urbana dot css dot mot dot com>
- Cc: systemtap at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 12:54:15 -0400
- Subject: Re: 64-bit integeer data types and the Linux kernel
- Organization: Red Hat Inc.
- References: <20070502163321.GA12378@urbana.css.mot.com>
On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 11:33 -0500, Quentin Barnes wrote:
> Why does Systemtap have to do this? (Rhetorical question!) Because
> the kernel doesn't always have these missing 64-bit integer routines
> for all architectures. Okay, why doesn't the kernel fully support
> 64-bit integer types for all architectures?
There was some discussion about fixing this a month ago or so.
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/23/321