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From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Morten Welinder <mwelinder@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: pointer arithmetics and casts
Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 04:43:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070526034354.GP4095@ftp.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <118833cc0705251814h9fffa39xc4a0f3f9e61242b9@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 09:14:33PM -0400, Morten Welinder wrote:
> >        BINOP[+]
> >                <tree for p>
> >                BINOP[*]
> >                        IMPLICIEDT_CAST[ptrdiff_t]
> >                                <tree for i>
> >                        VAL[sizeof(*p)]
> 
> I don't think you want ptrdiff_t there.  It isn't guaranteed to
> be big enough.

Only if you are allowed to have an array object with elements too far
for their addresses to be subtracted...
 
> size_t should do, though.

size_t is an unsigned type, so by definition it won't do...

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-05-26  3:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-25 21:23 pointer arithmetics and casts Al Viro
2007-05-25 22:00 ` Al Viro
2007-05-26 15:45   ` Al Viro
2007-05-26  1:14 ` Morten Welinder
2007-05-26  3:32   ` Derek M Jones
2007-05-26  4:16     ` Al Viro
2007-05-26  3:43   ` Al Viro [this message]
2007-05-26  3:44 ` Neil Booth
2007-05-26  4:22   ` Al Viro
2007-05-26  4:37     ` Neil Booth

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