Messages in this thread | | | From | David Laight <> | Subject | RE: [RFC][PATCH] rcu: Use typeof(p) instead of typeof(*p) * | Date | Mon, 11 Oct 2021 08:34:06 +0000 |
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From: Steven Rostedt > Sent: 05 October 2021 22:25 > ... > > Basically (one alternative I was looking at) was simply passing around a > void pointer. Not sure how the RCU macros would handle that. But to > completely abstract it out, I was thinking of just returning void * and > accepting void *, but I didn't want to do that because now we just lost any > kind of type checking done by the compiler. The tricks I was playing was to > keep some kind of type checking.
Yes, don't use 'void *'. Sun used it for all the pointers in their DDI/DKI - made it impossible to ensure you were passing in the right type of 'token'.
David
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