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From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To: Axel Lin <axel.lin@gmail.com>
Cc: Liam Girdwood <lrg@ti.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] regulator: core: Add intermediate cast to uintptr_t before casting to pointer
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2012 15:31:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120806143115.GL16861@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAF+7xWmvnJ5LCz6GW+MVb8eExhmfVM=CSG_v==iAJ+2Kv=jmaw@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 12:10:33AM +0800, Axel Lin wrote:

> Either is ok to me.
> But the double case looks better to me because the intention is clear.
> It seems uintptr_t is less commonly used in drivers code.
> Maybe just use (void *)(unsigned long)best_val is better in readability.

Two casts just looks terrible to me to be honest, it'll set off alarm
bells any time I glance at the code just from the visual pattern.

      reply	other threads:[~2012-08-06 14:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-29 23:47 [PATCH] regulator: core: Add intermediate cast to uintptr_t before casting to pointer Axel Lin
2012-07-30 15:33 ` Mark Brown
2012-07-31  2:21   ` Axel Lin
2012-07-31 15:41     ` Mark Brown
2012-07-31 16:08       ` Axel Lin
2012-08-02 18:00         ` Mark Brown
2012-08-05 16:10           ` Axel Lin
2012-08-06 14:31             ` Mark Brown [this message]

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