From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>
Cc: mitch@sfgoth.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.17-rc1 core_sys_select incompatible pointer types
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 02:27:01 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060403022701.5a2144cc.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <26766.1144055892@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com>
Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com> wrote:
>
> When did arithmetic on void pointers become acceptable? I know that it
> is a gcc extension but AFAIK its use is discouraged. Or am I in the
> wrong parallel universe again?
Yes, it's a gccism, but we actually use it rather a lot here and there.
It's quite useful for avoiding casting.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-03 9:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-03 8:28 2.6.17-rc1 core_sys_select incompatible pointer types Keith Owens
2006-04-03 8:44 ` Mitchell Blank Jr
2006-04-03 9:09 ` Andrew Morton
2006-04-03 9:18 ` Keith Owens
2006-04-03 9:27 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-04-03 9:55 ` Mitchell Blank Jr
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