Re: [RFC PATCH] type safe allocator

[Andi Kleen]

Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> #define k_new(type, flags) ((type *) kmalloc(sizeof(type), flags))

The cast doesn't make it more safe in any way

(at least as long as you don't care about portability to C++;
the kernel doesn't)

-Andi
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