Re: Newbie idiotic questions.

[Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>]

On Sunday 17 June 2001 03:32, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Bill Pringlemeir wrote:
> > Why is the struct type referenced for the allocation size?  Why not,
> >
> >         if ((card->mpuout = kmalloc(sizeof(card->mpuout), GFP_KERNEL))
>
> because then you would be allocating the size of a pointer, not the size
> of a structure

Whoops Jeff, you didn't have your coffee yet:

	struct foo { int a; int b; };
	struct { struct foo foo; } *foobar;

	int main (void)
	{
		printf("%i\n", sizeof(struct foo));
		printf("%i\n", sizeof(foobar->foo));
		printf("%i\n", sizeof(&foobar->foo));
	}

Prints:

	8
	8
	4
--
Daniel