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From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
To: Juan Quintela <quintela@trasno.org>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 5/8] ide/pci: convert to qdev.
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 09:09:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AADEC0C.6030906@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3bplh2js1.fsf@neno.mitica>

   Hi,

>> Sure, you have to dereference the pointer.  I still don't see a
>> problem here.  You seem to think this is fragile.  Why do you think
>> so?
>
> Pointer not initialized, it is NULL, point nowhere, etc, etc.
> No pointer, you don't need to even think about all that kind of porblems/checks.

NULL can easily be checked for, and that should also catch the "not 
initialized" case.  Pointing into nowhere is a clear bug which needs 
fixing anyway.

> uint8_t *foo[4]
> is a different beast ... how do you declare a pointer to one array of 4
> uint8_t?

This isn't a pointer to an array, it is a array of pointers ...

cheers,
   Gerd

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-09-14  7:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-11 12:32 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/8] ide: convert to qdev Gerd Hoffmann
2009-09-11 12:32 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/8] qdev/pci: add pci_create_noinit() Gerd Hoffmann
2009-09-11 14:14   ` Markus Armbruster
2009-09-11 14:28     ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-09-11 14:57       ` Markus Armbruster
2009-09-11 12:32 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/8] support media=cdrom for if=none Gerd Hoffmann
2009-09-11 12:32 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/8] split away drive init from ide_init2() Gerd Hoffmann
2009-09-11 14:27   ` Markus Armbruster
2009-09-11 14:36     ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-09-11 12:32 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/8] ide/qdev: add ide bus Gerd Hoffmann
     [not found]   ` <m3fxat8u80.fsf@neno.mitica>
2009-09-11 14:10     ` [Qemu-devel] " Gerd Hoffmann
2009-09-11 14:54   ` [Qemu-devel] " Markus Armbruster
2009-09-11 15:01     ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-09-11 12:32 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/8] ide/pci: convert to qdev Gerd Hoffmann
     [not found]   ` <m3bplh8u13.fsf@neno.mitica>
2009-09-11 14:13     ` [Qemu-devel] " Gerd Hoffmann
     [not found]       ` <m3my517dni.fsf@neno.mitica>
2009-09-11 14:58         ` Gerd Hoffmann
     [not found]           ` <m3y6ol5x64.fsf@neno.mitica>
2009-09-11 19:16             ` Gerd Hoffmann
     [not found]               ` <m3bplh2js1.fsf@neno.mitica>
2009-09-14  7:09                 ` Gerd Hoffmann [this message]
2009-09-11 15:21   ` [Qemu-devel] " Markus Armbruster
2009-09-14  6:44     ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-09-11 12:32 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/8] ide/isa: " Gerd Hoffmann
2009-09-11 12:32 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 7/8] isa: refine irq reservations Gerd Hoffmann
2009-09-11 12:32 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 8/8] unbreak ppc/prep Gerd Hoffmann
2009-09-11 14:31 ` [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/8] ide: convert to qdev Juan Quintela

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