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Re: PATCH: silence warning in spu/stat.c

From: jschopp <jschopp at austin dot ibm dot com>
To: Ben Elliston <bje at au1 dot ibm dot com>
Cc: Jeff Johnston <jjohnstn at redhat dot com>, newlib at sourceware dot org
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 18:15:08 -0600
Subject: Re: PATCH: silence warning in spu/stat.c
References: <1166052165.7074.8.camel@localhost> <4581DEA4.1080300@redhat.com> <1166140878.30414.1.camel@localhost>

Ben Elliston wrote:

Forgive my ignorance, but why is pathname an unsigned int in the stat structure and not declared a pointer of some kind?
This is a good question. I don't know why it was done this way. Joel?

Ben

I'm guessing here, but...

unsigned int is the same size on ppc32, ppc64, and spu. This is not true of a pointer type like char* . By using a definition that is the same on all 3 the structure definition can be identical everywhere it might be used.

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