From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 12:49:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 12:49:37 -0500 Received: from piglet.twiddle.net ([207.104.6.26]:29701 "EHLO piglet.twiddle.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 12:49:27 -0500 Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 09:49:05 -0800 From: Richard Henderson To: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Russell King , Hubert Mantel , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Alan Cox Subject: Re: Compatibility issue with 2.2.19pre7 Message-ID: <20010124094905.A15372@twiddle.net> In-Reply-To: <20010110163158.F19503@athlon.random> <200101102209.f0AM9N803486@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20010111005924.L29093@athlon.random> <20010123235115.A14786@twiddle.net> <20010124100240.A4526@athlon.random> <20010124015149.A14891@twiddle.net> <20010124132144.A13308@athlon.random> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3us In-Reply-To: <20010124132144.A13308@athlon.random> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 01:21:44PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > For example you don't know if there's another object that will cast > the int pointer back to char pointer before dereferencing. That would > get a defined runtime behaviour on all archs. No. The representation of "int*" and "char*" needn't be the same. And isn't on old word addressed machines. r~ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/