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 07:21:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 07:21:21 -0500 Received: from penguin.e-mind.com ([195.223.140.120]:56342 "EHLO penguin.e-mind.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 07:21:13 -0500 Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 13:21:44 +0100 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: Richard Henderson Cc: Russell King , Hubert Mantel , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Alan Cox Subject: Re: Compatibility issue with 2.2.19pre7 Message-ID: <20010124132144.A13308@athlon.random> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010124015149.A14891@twiddle.net>; from rth@twiddle.net on Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 01:51:49AM -0800 X-GnuPG-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.gnupg.asc X-PGP-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.asc Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 01:51:49AM -0800, Richard Henderson wrote: > On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 10:02:40AM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > I'd love if you could forbid it to compile. > > Problem is that there's stuff like this all over the place. Plus, That's why I thought you were required to make it to compile. 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. And yes, I see above I'm not allowed to say "runtime" nor "defined behaviour" according to the standard, but that's how thing works in practice. Andrea - 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/