Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 29 Apr 2004 11:30:25 +0200 | From | Ihar 'Philips' Filipau <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH][2.6.6-rc3] gcc-3.4.0 fixes |
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Mikael Pettersson wrote: > This patch fixes three warnings from gcc-3.4.0 in 2.6.6-rc3: > - drivers/char/ftape/: use of cast-as-lvalue > if (get_unaligned((__u32*)ptr)) { > - ++(__u32*)ptr; > + ptr += sizeof(__u32); > } else {
Can anyone explain what is the problem with this? To me it seems pretty ligitimate code - why it was outlawed in gcc 3.4?
Previous code was agnostic to type of ptr, but you code presume ptr being char pointer (to effectively increment by 4 bytes).
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