Re: Compiling kernel with SuSE 8.2/gcc 3.3

[Horst von Brand]

Steve French <[e-mail]> said:
> Although it fixes it for building on 32 bit architectures, won't changing
> 
> 
> 	__u64 uid = 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF;
> to
> 
> 	__u64 uid = 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFULL;
> 
> generate a type mismatch warning on ppc64 and similar 64 bit
> architecutres since __u64 is not a unsigned long long on ppc64 
> (it is unsigned long)?  My gut reaction is to just ingore the three
> places that cause warnings and the remaining two places that cause 
> signed/unsigned compare warnings of unsigned int local variables 
> to #defined literals (which presumably are treated as signed by default).

Be careful, the value will get shoehorned into 4 bytes to make the int
constant, which is then assigned to the __u64.
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