[Ocfs2-devel] [git patches] ocfs2 updates

[Mark Fasheh]

On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 03:37:14PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh at oracle.com> wrote:
> >
> > +					    "Extent %d at e_blkno %"MLFu64" of inode %"MLFu64" goes past ip_clusters of %u\n",
> 
> Sometime, please consider killing MLFu64 and friends.
Yeah, it's on my 'todo' list - enough people have asked now that it's clear
folks don't want it. The original idea behind it all was to avoid all the
casts involved. Anyway, I definitely intend to get to it.

> You covered most cases there, but sh64 implements u64 as `unsigned long
> long' (for example).
> 
> Generally we solve this problem by just using %ll and casting the args
> appropriately.   That does have some runtime cost on 32-bit.
>
> u64 and s64 are the easy case - it gets stickier on things like sector_t
> whose size is controlled by a CONFIG_thing on 32-bit.
Ah, cool. Thanks for pointing those out - it'll help as I try to remove this
stuff.
	--Mark

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Mark Fasheh
Senior Software Developer, Oracle
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