[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 3/6] net/axgbe: use common rte bit operation APIs instead

[Thomas Monjalon]

02/12/2019 07:09, Gavin Hu (Arm Technology China):
> Hi Bruce, Thomas,
> 
> This series of patches was reported a compilation issue[1] on 32bit Ubuntu. 
> On mainstream 64-bit OS,  "unsigned long" is 64-bit in size and we uses the 64-bit variant of APIs. But the 32-bit OS expect 32-bit 'unsigned long' arguments. 
> This is where the error happens. 

Please could you be more specific? What is the exact error?

> My question is how 32-bit OSes shall we support, put another way, can we ignore this compilation issue? 
> If we still need to care, how about making 'obsolete' of 'unsigned long' and use 'uint32' instead to be multi-OS friendly? 

Which unsigned long?
If it is in the (not merged) bit API, it can still be changed no?