[parisc-linux] Type sizes

[Alan Modra]

On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Matthew Wilcox wrote:

> on a 32-bit kernel, sizeof(long) == sizeof(int), so why can't we just use
> the first set of typedefs?

It avoids lots and lots of gcc warning messages compiling the kernel.  gcc
makes the fine distinction that long != int, even if they are the same
physical size.  size_t on pa32 is unsigned int but on pa64 is
unsigned long, and gcc knows about this for its builtin string functions.

Alan
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