Re: [patch 1/2] cciss: cleans up warnings in the 32/64 bit conversions

[mikem]

On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 01:00:45AM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> > -	err |= get_user(arg64.buf, &arg32->buf);
> > +	err |= get_user((__u64) arg64.buf, &arg32->buf);
> >  	if (err) return -EFAULT; 
> >  	old_fs = get_fs();
> >  	set_fs(KERNEL_DS);
> 
>  These constructs (casts as lvalues) are deprecated with GCC 3.4 (a
> warning is triggered) and no longer supported with 4.0.  Please consider
> rewriting -- you'll probably need an auxiliary variable.
> 
>   Maciej

Maciej,
Is this documented somewhere?

mikem
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