From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] cli()/sti() cleanup, 2.5.27-A2
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 11:17:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020730091747.GA331@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0207221546320.9136-100000@localhost.localdomain>
Hi!
> > > It's not that we confuse flags with some other flag all that
> > > frequently that would necessiate some structure-based more abstract
> > > protection of these variables.
>
> are you sure type-checking is really needed? Sure people can mess up the
> flags variable, but 64-bit archs could do a sizeof at compile-time.
Yes, it is needed; type-checking can be easily implemented as
{
unsigned long foo;
(&foo == &arg);
}
-- that gives warning when arg is not unsigned long.
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-31 18:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-21 18:50 [patch] "big IRQ lock" removal, 2.5.27-A1 Ingo Molnar
2002-07-21 19:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-07-21 19:14 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-07-21 19:24 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-07-21 20:41 ` [patch] "big IRQ lock" removal, 2.5.27-A5 Ingo Molnar
2002-07-21 20:50 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-07-21 20:59 ` [patch] "big IRQ lock" removal, 2.5.27-A7 Ingo Molnar
2002-07-21 21:26 ` [patch] "big IRQ lock" removal, 2.5.27-A9 Ingo Molnar
2002-07-21 21:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-07-21 21:56 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-07-21 23:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-07-22 0:31 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-07-22 0:40 ` Russell King
2002-07-22 0:55 ` Robert Love
2002-07-22 13:01 ` [patch] cli()/sti() cleanup, 2.5.27-A2 Ingo Molnar
2002-07-22 13:20 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-07-22 13:23 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-07-22 13:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-07-22 13:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-07-22 13:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-07-22 13:36 ` [patch] remove-irqlock-2.5.27-D7 Ingo Molnar
2002-07-22 13:38 ` [patch] cli()/sti() cleanup, 2.5.27-A2 Ingo Molnar
2002-07-22 13:43 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-07-22 13:49 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-07-22 14:00 ` Marcin Dalecki
2002-07-22 14:07 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-07-22 13:24 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-07-22 13:43 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-07-22 13:46 ` Russell King
2002-07-22 13:49 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-07-30 9:17 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2002-07-22 13:57 ` Marcin Dalecki
2002-07-22 14:05 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-07-22 14:27 ` Russell King
2002-07-22 14:28 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-07-22 13:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-07-22 13:52 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-07-22 17:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-07-22 18:01 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-07-23 6:48 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-07-22 1:00 ` [patch] "big IRQ lock" removal, 2.5.27-A9 Robert Love
2002-07-21 23:43 ` Russell King
2002-07-21 23:44 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-07-21 23:47 ` Russell King
2002-07-21 23:58 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-07-22 1:04 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-21 23:52 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-07-21 22:17 ` [patch] "big IRQ lock" removal, 2.5.27-A5 Alan Cox
2002-07-21 19:38 ` [patch] "big IRQ lock" removal, 2.5.27-A1 Robert Love
2002-07-21 22:19 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-07-21 23:55 ` Robert Love
2002-07-21 19:58 ` Russell King
2002-07-21 20:09 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-07-21 20:42 ` Russell King
2002-07-21 21:09 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-07-21 21:18 ` Russell King
2002-07-21 21:20 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-07-21 21:29 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-07-21 21:39 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-07-21 23:23 ` Ingo Molnar
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