Re: Question with "container_of(ptr, type, member)"

[peter <lifulong2c2i2c@gmail.com>]

I see now, It can gives an waring:  "warning: initialization from
incompatible pointer type", when give it an wrong type.
thanks for your answer!
On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 09:14 +1000, Ryan Mallon wrote:
> On 30/08/11 20:44, peter wrote:
> > I have a question about the macro " container_of(ptr, type, member) "
> > I can write it as this,
> >   #define container_of(ptr, type, member) ({ \
> > 	(type *) ((char *) ptr - offset_of(type, member)); \
> > 	})
> > It can act the same as
> > #define container_of(ptr, type, member) ({            \
> > 	 const typeof( ((type *)0)->member ) *__mptr = (ptr);    \
> > 	 (type *)( (char *)__mptr - offsetof(type,member) );})
> > So why we don't use the first one ?
> > Thanks for your answer.
> > (I am a kernel newbie ,and sorry for my poor english~)
> 
> The version used by the Linux kernel does type checking.
> 
> ~Ryan
>