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From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
To: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] ppc bug.h namespace pollution
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Al Viro writes:

> 	DATA_TYPE is really not a good thing to put into header that
> gets included all over the tree...

Very true.  However, I don't see any reason why the cast shouldn't
just be (long) on both 32-bit and 64-bit, so we can get rid of that
define altogether.

Paul.