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From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
To: "Giangiacomo Mariotti" <giangiacomo.mariotti@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Misuse of sizeof
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 08:59:10 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <adak5a41069.fsf@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2aac3c260812130831m3ec4aa5cm3abd729499727873@mail.gmail.com> (Giangiacomo Mariotti's message of "Sat, 13 Dec 2008 17:31:06 +0100")

 > IMO there's a bug in the use of sizeof in /arch/x86/boot/main.c, it's
 > also a strange style.

Style is of course a matter of opinion, but sizeof is an operator, not a
function, and as far as I can see, there's no bug in how it is used even
without your patch.

 - R.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-12-13 16:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-13 16:31 [PATCH] Misuse of sizeof Giangiacomo Mariotti
2008-12-13 16:43 ` Frédéric Weisbecker
2008-12-13 17:33   ` Giangiacomo Mariotti
2008-12-13 16:44 ` Miguel Ojeda
2008-12-13 16:48 ` Gregory Petrosyan
2008-12-13 16:59 ` Roland Dreier [this message]

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