From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] rcu: Use typeof(p) instead of typeof(*p) *
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2021 14:27:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHk-=whFhTofNk5G6dYFoFJC10EKzGdZVQdQygXHXWm_jodwBQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pn2qp6r2-238q-rs8n-p8n0-9s37sr614123@vanv.qr>
On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 2:09 PM Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de> wrote:
>
> Illegal.
> https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/language/conversion
> subsection "Pointer conversion"
> "No other guarantees are offered"
Well, we happily end up casting pointers to 'unsigned long' and back,
and doing bit games on the low bits of a pointer value.
So it's not like the kernel deeply cares about theoretical portability.
But I do discourage casting when not required, just because as much
static type checking we can possibly have is good when we can do it.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-05 21:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-05 13:47 [RFC][PATCH] rcu: Use typeof(p) instead of typeof(*p) * Steven Rostedt
2021-10-05 15:15 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2021-10-05 15:58 ` Steven Rostedt
2021-10-05 16:15 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2021-10-05 16:29 ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-10-05 16:40 ` Steven Rostedt
2021-10-11 8:39 ` David Laight
2021-10-12 14:18 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2021-10-12 15:36 ` Steven Rostedt
2021-10-05 16:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-10-05 16:37 ` Steven Rostedt
2021-10-05 16:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-10-05 16:42 ` Steven Rostedt
2021-10-05 18:01 ` Rasmus Villemoes
2021-10-05 18:06 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2021-10-05 18:28 ` Jan Engelhardt
2021-10-05 18:40 ` Steven Rostedt
2021-10-05 19:06 ` Jan Engelhardt
2021-10-05 19:40 ` Steven Rostedt
2021-10-05 19:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-10-05 20:02 ` Steven Rostedt
2021-10-05 19:49 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2021-10-05 20:06 ` Steven Rostedt
2021-10-05 20:37 ` Steven Rostedt
2021-10-05 20:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-10-05 21:05 ` Steven Rostedt
2021-10-05 21:09 ` Jan Engelhardt
2021-10-05 21:24 ` Steven Rostedt
2021-10-11 8:34 ` David Laight
2021-10-05 21:27 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2021-10-05 22:26 ` Jan Engelhardt
2021-10-05 18:48 ` Rasmus Villemoes
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