Use of data types
Matthias Kaehlcke
matthias at kaehlcke.net
Mon Jan 18 08:42:15 EST 2010
El Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 02:41:20PM +0100 Uwe Kleine-König ha dit:
> On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 09:43:12PM +0900, Khushhua Mogambo wrote:
> > Hi
> > I starting to port Linux kernel to my companies new ARM based
> > SoC and development board.
> >
> > Some of the regs is 16bits wide and some is 32bits width. I ask if
> > my using u16 and u32 in place of 'unsigned short' and 'unsigned int'
> > in the whole porting would be acceptable or not?
> >
> > In different wording, using only u16 and u32 always is considered good
> > quality or bad?
> I prefer using u32 over int. Still more if your register space isn't uniform.
ditto
how about using the C99 types uint32_t, ... in the kernel?
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