[U-Boot] [PATCH] omap3evm: Clean-up EVM detection code.

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Thu Dec 2 14:58:04 CET 2010


Dear Albert ARIBAUD,

In message <4CF7922B.3020504 at free.fr> you wrote:
>
> Now, on an unrelated note, omap3_emv's code arbitrarily uses an u8 where 
> an int (or enum) would be more appropriate, and this should be changed 
> not because it removes a linker warning, but because the u8 choice is 
> arbitrary and at best as effective as using an int, at worst suboptimal 
> to that.

Well, an u8 is as good a data type as any other. The available range
of 0...255 seems more than sufficient to store the needed
information, so why should I waste 4 bytes of storage when a single
byte is sufficient as well?



Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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