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From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, paulus@samba.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] wrapper: rename offset in offset_devp().
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:40:24 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071217004023.GB2394@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071211212303.GA3661@loki.buserror.net>

On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 03:23:04PM -0600, Scott Wood wrote:
> fdt_wrapper_create_node passes a variable called offset to offset_devp(),
> which uses said parameter to initialize a local variable called offset.
> 
> Due to one of the odder aspects of the C language, the result is an
> undefined variable, with no error or warning.

Ouch, nasty!  Good catch.

> Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>

Acked-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-12-17  0:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-11 21:23 [PATCH 1/2] wrapper: rename offset in offset_devp() Scott Wood
2007-12-12  4:45 ` Stephen Rothwell
2007-12-17  0:44   ` David Gibson
2007-12-17  0:40 ` David Gibson [this message]

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