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On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:52:33AM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 May 2009 11:40:51 am Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> 
> > you talk about performance or if it work at all?
> 
> Both, really.  If they have to code up macros to support identical
> operations (such as addition) on both platforms, and accidentally
> forget to use the macro in some place, then voila: untested code.

I haven't looked at the ZFS code but this sort of thing is exactly why
all code I write uses int8_t, int16_t, int32_t, uint8_t, ... even when
the first thing I have to do with a new compiler is to work out the
proper typedefs to create them.

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David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net
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