On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 3:08 AM, Chen Gang [off-list ref] wrote:

using 'unsigned int *', implicitly:
  ./ia64/include/asm/bitops.h:63:__set_bit (int nr, volatile void *addr)

There is some downside on ia64 to your suggestion.  If "addr" is properly
aligned for an "int", but misaligned for a long ... i.e. addr%8 == 4, then I'll
take an unaligned reference trap if I work with long* where the current code
working with int* does not.

Now perhaps all the callers do guarantee long* alignment?  But I don't know.

Apart from uniformity, there doesn't see to be any upside to changing this.

-Tony Luck