From: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 17:15:23 -0800 (PST)
> Oh f*ck, why do people do ugly code like this?
>
> That's just about the nastiest thing I've ever seen.
I totally agree.
>
> However, what I suspect David was actually suggesting was to just have
> some trivial for just the compat functions. You can generate them
> automatically based on
> - function name
> - signedness/unsignedness of each argument
> with some preprocessor hackery.
>
> So each architecture could have the following #defines:
Exactly.
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