PATCH: silence warning in spu/stat.c
jschopp
jschopp@austin.ibm.com
Fri Dec 15 16:36:00 GMT 2006
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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