64-bit integeer data types and the Linux kernel

[Martin Hunt]

On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 11:33 -0500, Quentin Barnes wrote:

> Why does Systemtap have to do this?  (Rhetorical question!)  Because
> the kernel doesn't always have these missing 64-bit integer routines
> for all architectures.  Okay, why doesn't the kernel fully support
> 64-bit integer types for all architectures?

There was some discussion about fixing this a month ago or so. 
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/23/321