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SubjectRe: [PATCH][2.6.6-rc3] gcc-3.4.0 fixes
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).

So what all this buzz about?
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