fixed memory bytes

[Denis Kirjanov]

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 8:40 PM, mohit verma <mohit89mlnc at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> hi all,
> i have seen many places in  kernel where the variables specially the
> structures should be of  fixed size independent of the architecture. i went
> through the  definitions of them  but dint  get  clearly (or frankly  say
> ...dint get them even a bit) .

Linux (compiler actually) supports C99 fixed-width types such as 8,
16, 32, 64 bits.
Just look through the include/linux/types.h
and small example here:
http://lxr.linux.no/#linux+v2.6.36/arch/powerpc/boot/types.h#L8
>
> so ,can please someone  help me to understand this??
>
>
> thanks in advance for help........
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> MOHIT VERMA
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Regards,
Denis