Re: [PATCH][2.6.6-rc3] gcc-3.4.0 fixes

[H. Peter Anvin]

Followup to:  <200404292146.i3TLkfI0019612@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
By author:    Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@xxxxxxxxx>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> 'ptr' _is_ a char pointer, and the code (visible in the part of
> the patch you didn't include) already performed pointer arithmetic
> on it relying on it being a char pointer. The old code had no
> sane reason at all for updating 'ptr' via a cast-as-lvalue.
> 
> cast-as-lvalue is not proper C, has dodgey semantics, and can
> always be replaced by proper C.
> 

I don't see how it has dodgey semantics for cast of pointers or
[u]intptr_t to pointers.

IMNSHO the fact that it breaks C++ isn't a good reason to outlaw a
long-documented extension for C.

	-hpa
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