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From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ptrdiff_t is not uintptr_t, damnit
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 11:53:27 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200708211153.27371.david-b@pacbell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070819225546.GV21089@ftp.linux.org.uk>

On Sunday 19 August 2007, Al Viro wrote:
> Use unsigned long or uintptr_t instead.  There are several places misusing
> ptrdiff_t (one - in a very odd way; WTF did that cast to __user ptrdiff_t 
> in ntfs expect to happen, anyway?)   Fixed...
> 
> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

By the way:  ACK.  Glad there's now always a "uintptr_t".

      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-08-21 18:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-19 22:55 [PATCH] ptrdiff_t is not uintptr_t, damnit Al Viro
2007-08-20  0:19 ` David Brownell
2007-08-20  0:29   ` Anton Altaparmakov
2007-08-20  0:57     ` Al Viro
2007-08-20  0:57     ` David Brownell
2007-08-20  3:01       ` Satyam Sharma
2007-08-20  3:26         ` David Brownell
2007-08-20  3:40           ` Al Viro
2007-08-20  4:17             ` David Brownell
2007-08-20  0:27 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2007-08-20  0:52   ` Al Viro
2007-08-20  1:12     ` David Brownell
2007-08-21 18:53 ` David Brownell [this message]

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