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From: Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org>
To: root@chaos.analogic.com
Cc: Michael Meissner <meissner@spectacle-pond.org>,
	Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sizeof problem in kernel modules
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 09:59:32 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87g0cobrgz.fsf@wesley.springies.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ofrcbryf.fsf@wesley.springies.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.1010625072259.5434A-100000@chaos.analogic.com> <87ofrcbryf.fsf@wesley.springies.com>

Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> writes:

> You can look at other things too... you can memcpy structures, pass
> them into functions, call sizeof, put them in arrays... it _is_ a
> physical representation.

One more tidbit: ISO/IEC 9899:1990 3.14

  3.14 object: A region of data storage in the execution environment,
    the contents of which can represent values.  Except for
    bit-fields, objects are composed of contiguous sequences of one or
    more bytes, the number, order and encoding of which are either
    explicitely specified or implementation-defined.

This would specifically prohibit separating any part of a structure
from the rest.

-- 
Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> - In a variety of flavors!
A king's castle is his home.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-06-25 14:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-06-23 14:54 Der Herr Hofrat
2001-06-23 15:18 ` Keith Owens
2001-06-23 15:30 ` Russell King
2001-06-24  1:56 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-06-24  2:12   ` Keith Owens
2001-06-24  2:43     ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-06-24 16:07       ` Lieven Marchand
2001-06-24 16:11       ` frank
2001-06-25  0:26       ` Michael Meissner
2001-06-25 11:32         ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-06-25 13:38           ` Alan Shutko
2001-06-25 14:49             ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-06-25 19:19               ` Alan Shutko
2001-06-25 13:59           ` Alan Shutko [this message]
2001-06-25 15:07             ` Andreas Schwab
2001-06-25 21:25             ` Horst von Brand
2001-06-25 20:43           ` Michael Meissner
2001-06-25  4:33 ` Anil Kumar

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