Re: [PATCH] remove strict ansi check from __u64 in asm/types.h

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On 8/6/07, H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]> wrote:
> Olaf Hering wrote:
> >
> > Remove the __STRICT_ANSI__ check from the __u64/__s64 declaration on
> > 32bit targets.
> >
> > Here is the reason why we think the check should be relaxed:
>
> I think the fact that "long long" was made official C in C99 is good
> enough.  Flagging them as __extension__ is okay, I guess, but something
> like this should definitely go in.

the patch we (Gentoo) tried posting a while ago never saw any response:
http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/gentoo/src/patchsets/gentoo-headers/2.6.22/35_all_c99-types.patch?rev=1.2
-mike
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