[lm-sensors] [PATCH] pmbus: Use long variables for register to data conversions

[Jean Delvare]

On Tue, 12 Jul 2011 06:40:57 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 03:00:16AM -0400, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > Hi Guenter,
> > 
> > On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 12:04:24 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > > Using integer variable types for register to data conversions can cause
> > > overflows especially for power calculations, which are in microwatt.
> > > Use long variables instead.
> > 
> > I have no objection, using longs for calculations certainly makes
> > sense, however does it really help in practice? I thought that
> > sizeof(int) == sizeof(long) for all architectures on Linux?
> > 
> No ... for x86_64 long is 64 bit and int is 32 bit.

D'oh, you're right. Will I ever remember this...

> I'll may have
> to switch to "long long" at some point, though, or maybe s64.
> Still hesitating to do that.

I'd think twice about it (and how to do it exactly)... I think long
long is relatively expensive on 32-bit x86?

-- 
Jean Delvare