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From: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
To: Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org,
	ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org, toralf.foerster@gmx.de,
	hmh@hmh.eng.br,
	"linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org" <linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/9] gpiolib: devres: use correct structure type name in sizeof
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 08:48:43 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.10.1407301048170.2389@hadrien> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAVeFuLZb3CVV6B771V3-mzYdp0zsxaBfAAdikQDMBxSZTPTjA@mail.gmail.com>



On Wed, 30 Jul 2014, Alexandre Courbot wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 12:16 AM, Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr> wrote:
> > From: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
> >
> > Correct typo in the name of the type given to sizeof.  Because it is the
> > size of a pointer that is wanted, the typo has no impact on compilation or
> > execution.
> >
> > This problem was found using Coccinelle (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/).  The
> > semantic patch used can be found in message 0 of this patch series.
>
> Acked-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
>
> Interestingly the compiler never complains despite gpiod_desc not
> being a declared type...

The compiler doesn't care.  A pointer is a pointer, regardless of the
type.

julia

  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-30  8:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-29 15:16 [PATCH 0/9] use correct structure type name in sizeof Julia Lawall
2014-07-29 15:16 ` [PATCH 1/9] drivers/staging/media/davinci_vpfe/vpfe_mc_capture.c: use correct structure type name in Julia Lawall
2015-11-09 20:48   ` [PATCH 1/9] drivers/staging/media/davinci_vpfe/vpfe_mc_capture.c: use correct structure type nam Laurent Pinchart
2014-07-29 15:16 ` [PATCH 2/9] CAPI: use correct structure type name in sizeof Julia Lawall
2014-07-31  2:14   ` David Miller
2014-07-29 15:16 ` [PATCH 3/9] i40e: " Julia Lawall
2014-07-29 20:22   ` Brown, Aaron F
2014-07-31  2:14   ` David Miller
2014-07-29 15:16 ` [PATCH 4/9] reiserfs: " Julia Lawall
2014-07-29 15:16 ` [PATCH 5/9] scsi: " Julia Lawall
2014-07-29 15:16 ` [PATCH 6/9] gpiolib: devres: " Julia Lawall
2014-07-30  8:27   ` Alexandre Courbot
2014-07-30  8:48     ` Julia Lawall [this message]
2014-08-08 13:26   ` Linus Walleij
2014-07-29 15:16 ` [PATCH 7/9] scsi: " Julia Lawall
2014-07-29 15:16 ` [PATCH 8/9] iwlegacy: " Julia Lawall
2014-07-29 15:16 ` [PATCH 9/9] uwb/whci: " Julia Lawall

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