From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265668AbUGEI7w (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jul 2004 04:59:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265736AbUGEI7w (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jul 2004 04:59:52 -0400 Received: from webapps.arcom.com ([194.200.159.168]:46340 "EHLO webapps.arcom.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265668AbUGEI7v (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jul 2004 04:59:51 -0400 Message-ID: <40E91885.1000707@arcom.com> Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2004 09:59:49 +0100 From: David Vrabel User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (X11/20040605) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linux Kernel Subject: Re: Some cleanup patches for: '...lvalues is deprecated' References: <40E6AC41.4050804@tiscali.be> <20040703205621.GA1640@ucw.cz> <20040705051010.GA24583@nevyn.them.org> In-Reply-To: <20040705051010.GA24583@nevyn.them.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 05 Jul 2004 09:00:51.0312 (UTC) FILETIME=[9244BF00:01C4626E] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > Except C does not actually allow incrementing a void pointer, since > void does not have a size. You can't do arithmetic on one either. GNU > C allows this as an extension. GCC seems to have a whole bunch of ill thought out extensions like this. David Vrabel -- David Vrabel, Design Engineer Arcom, Clifton Road Tel: +44 (0)1223 411200 ext. 3233 Cambridge CB1 7EA, UK Web: http://www.arcom.com/