David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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. >
No, it won't waste any bytes at all. It won't save any either. But if someone comes along later and wants to add another int to that structure, they won't know that your field was needlessly made a long, and they'll then waste another eight bytes. - 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/
