From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: "Kevin P. Fleming" <kpfleming@cox.net>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] new ioctl type checking causes gcc warning
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 22:02:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <je65jx3hdk.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F621AC4.4070507@cox.net> (Kevin P. Fleming's message of "Fri, 12 Sep 2003 12:13:08 -0700")
"Kevin P. Fleming" <kpfleming@cox.net> writes:
> --- linux-2.6.0-test5/include/asm-i386/ioctl.h~ Mon Sep 8 12:49:52 2003
> +++ linux-2.6.0-test5/include/asm-i386/ioctl.h Fri Sep 12 11:58:41 2003
> @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
> ((size) << _IOC_SIZESHIFT))
>
> /* provoke compile error for invalid uses of size argument */
> -extern int __invalid_size_argument_for_IOC;
> +extern unsigned int __invalid_size_argument_for_IOC;
Why not make it size_t which is what sizeof actually returns?
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-12 20:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-12 19:13 Kevin P. Fleming
2003-09-12 20:02 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2003-09-12 12:53 ` Arnd Bergmann
2003-09-12 23:43 ` Kevin P. Fleming
2003-09-13 0:22 ` Arnd Bergmann
2003-09-13 0:31 ` Kevin P. Fleming
2003-09-13 11:05 ` Arnd Bergmann
2003-09-13 13:17 ` Kevin P. Fleming
2003-09-13 19:10 ` Jamie Lokier
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