Re: [GIT] Networking

Julia Lawall
2015-09-03T21:26:31Z

On Thu, 3 Sep 2015, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 1:55 PM, Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr> wrote:
> >
> > There are 32 2-dimensional arrays in function parameters, and 1
> > 3-dimensional array. No 4-dimensional arrays. I didn't check past that.
> > None of these has a sizeof or ARRAY_SIZE.
> >
> > The three dimensional array is here: drivers/media/dvb-frontends/stv0367.c
>
> Ok. That actually looks like a valid use of the C function argument
> array passing semantics. It's rather much simpler than exposing the
> pointers.
>
> So I guess we don't really end up wanting to disallow this, and the
> new gcc array sizeof warning is good enough.
>
> Thanks for running the analysis so that I didn't have to look at it ;)

The double arrays also look OK - the uses are also explicit double array
references.

julia