Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Aug 2007 01:52:46 +0100 | From | Al Viro <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ptrdiff_t is not uintptr_t, damnit |
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On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 01:27:13AM +0100, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> And what the cast was doing I can't remember. I may well have just > copied it from the VFS or I was perhaps trying to silence a warning > and this happened to work...
... due to sparse bug (it miscalculated address space of pointed to, picking top-level qualifiers for some reason; __user pointer to char and pointer to __user char gave the same result and so did __user long). That cast still made no sense... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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