On Mon, 2014-08-18 at 17:36 +0200, Krzysztof Majzerowicz-Jaszcz wrote: > On 18/08/14 17:31, Joe Perches wrote: > > On Mon, 2014-08-18 at 08:29 -0700, Alexander Duyck wrote: > >> Doing any kind of pointer math on a void pointer is generally unsafe as > >> it is an incomplete type. The only reason why it works in GCC is > >> because GCC has a nonstandard extension that makes it report as having a > >> size of 1. > > > > I know. It's used in quite a few places in kernel code > > so I believe it's now a base assumption for the kernel. > > > Ok, so what do you suggest - void* or char* here ?
Do what you (or Alex) think is best. My main point was trying to make the code a bit clearer. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
