nightly test result of systemtap in ppc64

Roland McGrath roland@redhat.com
Mon Apr 10 20:53:00 GMT 2006


> More likely a "pilot error" in the new code.  Is "long long" on ppc64
> a 64-bit or 128-bit quantity?  And on x86_64?

It's 64 bits, but is not the same type as "long", which is also 64 bits.
On x86_64 the kernel uses "long long" for s64/u64 (aka int64_t et al), on
ppc64 it uses "long".  There is no big reason to do one or the other, and
there are nit reasons like this one leaning in both directions.  I wouldn't
really want to depend on which choice is made among the various kernel
versions and machines.



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