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long primitive for memory addresses

Hi all,

In many kernel data structures (struct pglist_data and struct zone_struct at
least) pointers to physical memory are represented as long values. On the
x86 platform, why can't 32-bit memory addresses be represented with only an
int instead? Or is this just to have to change less code for 64-bit
architectures?

Thanks,
Kirk

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