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From: kaih@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Athlon/Opteron Prefetch Fix for 2.6.0test5 + numbers
Date: 19 Sep 2003 08:55:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8uAuunHHw-B@khms.westfalen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030917211200.GA5997@wotan.suse.de>

ak@suse.de (Andi Kleen)  wrote on 17.09.03 in <20030917211200.GA5997@wotan.suse.de>:

> On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 01:50:59PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> > Also, you do things like comparing pointers for less/greater than, and at
> > least some versions of gcc has done that wrong - using signed comparisons.
>
> Really? Is that any version we still support (2.95+) ?
> It is certainly legal ISO-C. I changed it for now.

It certainly is *not* legal ISO C, and never was.

Pointer comparision is *only* legal in ISO C if both pointers point to the  
same object - same variable, or same piece of malloc'd memory. Anything  
else is undefined.

MfG Kai

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-09-19  7:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-17  2:22 [PATCH] Athlon/Opteron Prefetch Fix for 2.6.0test5 + numbers Andi Kleen
2003-09-17  2:44 ` Andrew Morton
2003-09-17  3:25   ` Andi Kleen
2003-09-17  4:53   ` Nick Piggin
2003-09-17  5:08     ` Andrew Morton
2003-09-17  5:19       ` Nick Piggin
2003-09-17  7:15       ` Dave Hansen
2003-09-17  5:26     ` Andi Kleen
2003-09-17  5:44       ` Nick Piggin
2003-09-17 19:53     ` Linus Torvalds
2003-09-17 20:21       ` Andi Kleen
2003-09-17 20:50         ` Linus Torvalds
2003-09-17 21:12           ` Andi Kleen
2003-09-18 15:38             ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-18 16:04               ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-18 17:06                 ` Andi Kleen
2003-09-18 19:48                   ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-19  6:55             ` Kai Henningsen [this message]
2003-09-19 10:02               ` Andreas Schwab

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