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From: "J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
To: Lista Linux-Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: bad function ptrs - is it dangerous ?
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 00:51:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021001225125.GD3927@werewolf.able.es> (raw)

Hi al...

I have a little question. Let's suppose you have this:

int (*pf)(data *);
int f(data*);

so you can:

pf = f;
pf(data).

Fine. But what happens if:

void (*pf)(data *);
int f(data*);

pf = f; // gcc happily swallows, gcc-3.2 gives a warning.
pf(data).

??

In C calling convention, the callee kills the stack so nothing should
happen... or it should ?

The (in)famous graphics driver all you know is doing this with the
copy_info op for gart...

TIA

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J.A. Magallon <jamagallon@able.es>      \                 Software is like sex:
werewolf.able.es                         \           It's better when it's free
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             reply	other threads:[~2002-10-01 22:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-01 22:51 J.A. Magallon [this message]
2002-10-01 23:56 ` bad function ptrs - is it dangerous ? Burton Samograd
2002-10-02  8:06 Mikael Pettersson

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