From: Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net>
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: PATCH: fix 2 byte data leak due to padding
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 13:44:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030728114424.GB5453@wiggy.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1059391969.15438.16.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk>
Previously Alan Cox wrote:
> sizeof(variable) can be suprising some times so I always use sizeof(type) out
> of habit. (Think sizeof(x) when X later becomes a pointer)
when X becomes a pointer and you use sizeof(type of what X points to)
you'll be in trouble anyway.
Wichert.
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Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net> It is simple to make things.
http://www.wiggy.net/ It is hard to make things simple.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-28 11:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-27 20:19 PATCH: fix 2 byte data leak due to padding Alan Cox
2003-07-28 3:49 ` Lou Langholtz
2003-07-28 11:32 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-28 11:44 ` Wichert Akkerman [this message]
2003-07-28 19:54 ` Andrew Morton
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