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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 18/28] tools/libxl: Infrastructure to
 convert a legacy stream
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2015 17:04:09 +0100
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On Mon, 2015-07-13 at 16:53 +0100, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> I could see about doing something based on BITS_PER_LONG which doesn't
> have a visible ifdef, but is still ifdefary.

Given that it is the reason for the width differences in the old stream
using sizeof(unsigned long) wouldn't seem massively inappropriate,
indeed.

I'm not sure it's especially necessary to launder that through
bits_per_long though.

Ian.