Re: long primitive for memory addresses

[Seth Arnold <sarnold@wirex.com>]

On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 07:21:36AM -0700, Kirk True wrote:
> 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?

Exactly, less code changes for multiple platform support. Of course, if
the kernel is ever ported to a machine where unsigned long doesn't match
the address space of a process, there is going to be some problems..

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