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From: crayben@yahoo.cn (Burke)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: simple question about the function memcmp in kernel
Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2013 11:52:23 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51623EF7.8020808@yahoo.cn> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <122907.1365388178@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>

? 2013-4-8 10:29, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu ??:
> On Mon, 08 Apr 2013 05:56:29 +0400, Max Filippov said:
>
>> const is the the object they point to, not the pointers themselves
>> (that would be
>> void * const cs).
>>
>> memcmp compares bytes at which cs and ct point, but these are void pointers,
>> and the expression res = *cs - *ct is thus meaningless.
> Max is right, and I'm obviously under-caffienated or something. :)
Dear Max,Valdis:
I got it, many thanks for your kindly reply.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-08  3:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-05  8:50 Interrupt Handler of Ethernet Device Robert Clove
2013-04-05 12:06 ` Rami Rosen
2013-04-05 12:11   ` Robert Clove
2013-04-05 12:24     ` Anuz Pratap Singh Tomar
2013-04-07  2:52   ` ishare
2013-04-07 15:22     ` Rami Rosen
2013-04-08  0:57       ` simple question about the function memcmp in kernel Ben Wu
2013-04-08  1:33         ` Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
2013-04-08  1:56           ` Max Filippov
2013-04-08  2:29             ` Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
2013-04-08  3:52               ` Burke [this message]
2013-04-08  5:42       ` Interrupt Handler of Ethernet Device Robert Clove
2013-04-08  6:41         ` Rami Rosen

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