"H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> writes: > On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 10:36:21AM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote: >> "H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> writes: >> >> > On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 04:21:23PM -0700, Richard Henderson wrote: >> >> On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 12:39:18PM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote: >> >> > Can I get char * from char [300]? >> >> >> >> x+0 would work in this case; I'd guess it'd work for most of the >> >> cases that syscalls need to handle. >> >> >> > >> > This patch works for me. >> > >> > >> > H.J. >> > --- >> > 2003-09-22 H.J. Lu <hongjiu.lu@intel.com> >> > >> > * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ia64/sysdep.h (LOAD_ARGS_1): Use >> > __typeof ((outX) + 0) instead of long. >> >> Hopefully we don't have any occurences of LOAD_ARGS_n(...,0,..) where the >> kernel expects long. >> > > I don't think it will be the problem. Compiler will do > > addl outN = constant, r0 > > to pass a constant to the function, regardless what the type is. Am I > correct? It doesn't have to be a constant, it can be an arbitrary expression of the wrong (narrower) type. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux AG, Deutschherrnstr. 15-19, D-90429 Nürnberg Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Wed Sep 24 16:38:49 2003
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