From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>, Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>,
tglx@linutronix.de, viro@ftp.linux.org.uk,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] arch/x86: Use offsetof
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 01:17:12 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071227011712.GG27894@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4772F972.7070802@zytor.com>
On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 05:01:38PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> The right way to do it is:
>
> memset(&info.vm86plus, 0, sizeof info.vm86plus);
If it's just one field _and_ we don't have padding we want to zero out -
certainly...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-27 1:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-26 16:13 [PATCH 1/3] arch/x86: Use offsetof Julia Lawall
2007-12-26 16:13 ` Julia Lawall
2007-12-26 19:47 ` Pavel Machek
2007-12-26 19:47 ` Pavel Machek
2007-12-27 1:01 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-12-27 1:01 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-12-27 1:17 ` Al Viro [this message]
2007-12-27 1:21 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-12-27 1:21 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-12-30 13:54 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-30 13:54 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-27 1:44 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-12-27 1:44 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-12-27 1:49 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-12-27 1:49 ` H. Peter Anvin
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