Hi For sure you can cast any pointer. But feels somehow wrong. The opinion was the specs are always correct.
Bests, Joël On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 8:12 PM, Jaromír Mikeš <mira.mi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 2017-08-10 16:23 GMT+02:00 Joël Krähemann <jkraehem...@gmail.com>: >> >> Hi James, >> >> It is common that you use for storing uint8_t an entire word. >> The use of a uint8_t pointer confused me as you are pointing >> to a struct. >> >> Bests, >> Joël >> >> >> On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 4:10 PM, James Cowgill <jcowg...@debian.org> >> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > On 10/08/17 08:31, Joël Krähemann wrote: >> >> Package: lv2-dev >> >> Version: 1.14.0~dfsg1-1 >> >> Severity: important >> >> >> >> Dear Maintainer, >> >> >> >> The following header makes use of smallest possible pointer in >> >> LV2_Event_Buffer struct's data field. >> >> >> >> lv2/lv2plug.in/ns/ext/event/event.h >> >> >> >> Please change it to biggest possible pointer. It should be definitely >> >> void* type because the memory >> >> pointed by data shall contain another struct LV2_Event. >> >> >> >> This describes an integer overflow. There shouldn't be any overflow. >> > >> > I'm afraid I don't see what the problem is here, or where the integer >> > overflow is. The data field is casted to an appropriate pointer type >> > whenever it is used and doing that is portable if you're careful. >> > > Hi Joel, > > You still think it is a bug? > Did you contacted upstream author about this issue already? > > best regards > > mira > _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
