Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Any particular reason? It's mixed in with other unsigned longs and pointers > > after all... > > Just that it's the natural wordsize of the machine, and uses less storage.
Making it unsigned long on a 32-bit machine will make no difference. Making it unsigned int on a 64-bit machine will waste four bytes. David - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
