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To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: ALIGN
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From: Oleg Verych <olecom@flower.upol.cz>
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On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 08:38:27AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Oleg Verych wrote:
> >
> > Probably it can be used to get rid of gccisms and "type fluff" due to
> > bitwise arithmetics in ALIGN?
> 
> Hell no.
> 
> The typeof is there to make sure we have the right type, and it's simple.

Right. Now i see.

Thanks!
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