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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Sotir Danailov <sndanailov@gmail.com>
Cc: kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Re: Typecasting a void pointer to unsigned long in zsmalloc.c
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2025 18:00:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2025012347-shorthand-october-ada2@gregkh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACYkWJ6=M9jQru5FDFaQr-gWr_oAZ=NXA0KPfv1tvvwOxk7OYQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Jan 23, 2025 at 05:27:03PM +0100, Sotir Danailov wrote:
> > This is a requirement that Linux makes for the compiler to work with
> > it for any platform that Linux runs on.
> 
> Ah I see, thank you! Is this documented somewhere? I was searching
> for information on this, but nothing came up in the kernel docs.

It's just a "known thing" for Linux platforms.  It's documented
somewhere I think but I can't remember where, sorry.

greg k-h

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  reply	other threads:[~2025-01-23 17:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-01-23 15:52 Typecasting a void pointer to unsigned long in zsmalloc.c Sotir Danailov
2025-01-23 15:59 ` Greg KH
2025-01-23 16:27   ` Sotir Danailov
2025-01-23 17:00     ` Greg KH [this message]
2025-01-23 17:05       ` Sotir Danailov
2025-01-23 17:40         ` Leam Hall
2025-01-23 18:30           ` Sotir Danailov
2025-01-23 19:54             ` Leam Hall
2025-01-23 20:48               ` Sotir Danailov
2025-01-23 21:09                 ` Costa Shulyupin
2025-01-24  5:13                   ` Greg KH
2025-01-24 21:45                     ` Sotir Danailov
2025-01-26 23:29                       ` Leam Hall
2025-01-27 10:39                         ` Sotir Danailov
2025-01-27 13:48                           ` Leam Hall
2025-01-28  8:45                             ` Sotir Danailov
2025-01-28  8:58                               ` Costa Shulyupin
2025-01-28  9:14                                 ` Sotir Danailov
2025-01-28  9:24                           ` Sotir Danailov
2025-01-28 10:23                             ` Leam Hall
2025-01-23 18:44     ` jim.cromie
     [not found] <mailman.1.1737651601.26911.kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org>
2025-01-23 17:58 ` Alex Hogen
2025-01-23 18:23   ` Greg KH

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