On Sat, 6 Mar 1999, Nate Williams wrote:
> > > > > I make a habit of checking out any interesting kernel changes in
> > > > > full, and one
> > > > > thing I found in the recent diff by Mr. Wollman for kern_timeout.c is:
> > > > >
> > > > > +void
> > > > > +callout_init(c)
> > > > > + struct callout *c;
> > > > > +{
> > > > > + bzero(c, sizeof c);
> > > > > }
> > > > >
> > > > > That doesn't look correct, does it?
> > > >
> > > > Agreed. I think it should be "sizeof *c".
> > >
> > > Ahh, I see. I think it should say
> > >
> > > bzero(c, sizeof(struct callout));
> > >
> > > To avoid the compiler using the size of the pointers et. al.
> > >
> >
> > I prefer to do this in my own code, usually. However, using *c doesn't
> > "use the size of the pointer".
>
> Understood, but the point being that Garrett is an experienced
> programmer, and made this mistake. The latter version avoids any
> possibilities of said mistake.
>
It's just as easy to make the mistake of typing sizeof(struct foo *); I think
there should perhaps be a warning in gcc/egcs about this, like
-Wpointer-sizeof that would warn if you try sizeof(c) where c is a pointer,
but not sizeof(*c) or sizeof(void *). It would help find this kind of
thing, but of course would only be enabled by user-choice, not by default.
Maybe I should just write my own linter instead :)
>
>
> Nate
>
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