Re: [RFC] typechecking for get_unaligned/put_unaligned

From: David Howells
Date: Tue Oct 17 2006 - 05:05:01 EST


Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> * sizeof(*ptr) should be one of 1, 2, 4, 8

Should we give an error if someone tries passing a 1-byte-sized memory location
to get/put_unaligned()? I suspect it might be best to reduce to a trivial
direct assignment in that case.

David
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