Re: [PATCH] ptrdiff_t is not uintptr_t, damnit

On Sunday 19 August 2007, Al Viro wrote:
> Use unsigned long or uintptr_t instead.  There are several places misusing
> ptrdiff_t (one - in a very odd way; WTF did that cast to __user ptrdiff_t 
> in ntfs expect to happen, anyway?)   Fixed...
> 
> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <[email protected]>

By the way:  ACK.  Glad there's now always a "uintptr_t".
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