[parisc-linux] fdisk problems 2.4 <-> 2.6

[Joel Soete]

Randolph Chung wrote:
>>What is "%R2" intended to be?
>>Randolph pointed out this is broken before and I was wrong
>>to commit this chunk to the 2.4 tree (I'm working on
>>removing it now).
> 
> 
> Just a clarification:
> 
> %R2 is not *wrong* -- it points to the right side of argument register 
> 2 (jda explained this in an earlier thread), but I am not 100% sure 
> %R2 will do the right thing for a 32-bit build though -- if you are 
> running on a pa1.1 machine and the register is only 32-bit, does %R2 
> automatically do the right thing with 64-bit arguments?  I guess it's 
> easy enough to tell by looking at the code gcc generates...
> 

Good idea and just for curiosity (i don't want to insist to maintain 
some line of code which soon or later would have to be change ), I can 
try to find back a test case I used to prepare. (Just be patient)

> anyway, i think we should stick with the inline version of the code
> too....
> 
> thx
> randolph

thx also for attention,
	Joel