Re: Large block device patch, part 1 of 9

From: Benjamin LaHaise (bcrl@redhat.com)
Date: Wed Sep 04 2002 - 19:04:24 EST


On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 09:04:01AM +1000, Peter Chubb wrote:
> Unfortunately, this doesn't really buy you much ---- standard C type
> promotion rules mean that whatever (within reason) you pass to
> llsect() will work without warning.

Not if someone changes a variable to a pointer by accident without
updating the printk. It does happen.

                -ben

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