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Re: [RFH] gcc constant expression warning...

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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date
Oct 29, 2007, 04:37 UTC
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On Sun, 28 Oct 2007, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> 
> The test must also make sure off_t isn't signed, since in that case it 
> can only hold 31 bits.

Sinc eneither 31 _nor_ 32 bits is really enough, it's perfectly fine to just check that the size of "off_t" is *bigger* than 4 bytes, which my pseudo-patch did.

		Linus
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