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Florian Weimer writes: > Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> writes: > > > One of the reasons why C is a good language for the kernel is that its > > memory model is a good match to the memory organization used by the > > processors that linux runs on. Thus, for these processors, adding an > > offset to a pointer is in fact simply an arithmetic addition. > > But this is not the memory model of C! Adding an offset to a pointer > is an operation involving objects defined by the C language, and not > machine registers. Sometimes, this makes a noticeable difference. Sorry, you are correct. I should have written "One of the reasons why C used to be a good language for writing operating system kernels ..." Paul. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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