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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ioctl() numbers are unsigned (the man page lies


From: David Gibson
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ioctl() numbers are unsigned (the man page lies)
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 20:58:23 +1100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)

On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 09:30:09AM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> Looks like the subject would warmly welcome a "kvm:" tag.
> 
> On 2012-02-09 05:22, David Gibson wrote:
[snip]
> 
> What about naming the problem instead:
> 
> /* Comparison with IOCTL macros on 32-bit hosts requires unsigned. */

Just once, it would be nice to post something to this list and get a
substantive comment _before_ the bitching about minutiae.

Oh, and it's not just 32-bit hosts, it's anywhere sizeof(int)==4,
which includes ppc64 amongst other 64-bit hosts.

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