02/12/2019 07:09, Gavin Hu (Arm Technology China): > Hi Bruce, Thomas, > > This series of patches was reported a compilation issue[1] on 32bit Ubuntu. > On mainstream 64-bit OS, "unsigned long" is 64-bit in size and we uses the > 64-bit variant of APIs. But the 32-bit OS expect 32-bit 'unsigned long' > arguments. > This is where the error happens.
Please could you be more specific? What is the exact error? > My question is how 32-bit OSes shall we support, put another way, can we > ignore this compilation issue? > If we still need to care, how about making 'obsolete' of 'unsigned long' and > use 'uint32' instead to be multi-OS friendly? Which unsigned long? If it is in the (not merged) bit API, it can still be changed no?
