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I could be persuaded otherwise with an example of a program for which
changing __s64 from 'long long' to 'long' would break *binary* backward
compatibility, or similarly for __u64.

C++ could break.

Thinking of this again we can detect C++ as well so it can be safely
enabled just for C with:

#if !defined(__KERNEL__) && !defined(__cplusplus) && __BITSPERLONG == 64
# include <asm-generic/int-l64.h>
#else
# include <asm-generic/int-ll64.h>
#endif

I'm very interested in seeing this merged, as that would allow 
simplifying the man-pages by removing unnecessary kernel details such as 
u64[1].  How is the state of this patch?

I guess that it stalled because I haven't posted it as an actual patch,
I should do so to get this back on a track.

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Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@suse.cz