From: Prakash Punnoor <prakashp@arcor.de>
To: Roland Dreier <roland@topspin.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@mail.ru>,
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [BK PATCHES] 2.6.x libata fixes (mostly)
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 23:07:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <421CFEA3.6000207@arcor.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <528y5faqbb.fsf@topspin.com>
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Roland Dreier schrieb:
> Prakash> If I am not totally mistaken this is not gcc4 friendly
> Prakash> code. (lvalue thing...)
>
> Actually you misread the code slightly. It's a little subtle, but
> code like
>
> *(__le32 *)prd = cpu_to_le32(len);
>
> is not using a cast as an lvalue. It's dereferencing a cast and as
> such is totally correct, idiomatic and clean C.
OK, thanks for clearing that up. Obviously my C knowledge needs to be improved...
--
Prakash Punnoor
formerly known as Prakash K. Cheemplavam
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-23 22:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-23 19:57 [BK PATCHES] 2.6.x libata fixes (mostly) Jeff Garzik
2005-02-23 21:45 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2005-02-23 21:24 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-02-23 21:28 ` Prakash Punnoor
2005-02-23 22:01 ` Roland Dreier
2005-02-23 22:07 ` Prakash Punnoor [this message]
2005-02-23 21:57 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2005-02-23 23:26 ` [PATCH 2.6.11+ sata_qstor] libata: sata_qstor cosmetic fixes Mark Lord
2005-02-23 23:39 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-02-24 5:21 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-02-24 15:15 ` Mark Lord
2005-02-25 5:48 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-02-28 16:22 ` [PATCH 2.6.11-rc5+ sata_qstor] sata_qstor: eh_timeout fix Mark Lord
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