Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 30 Jul 2002 11:17:48 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [patch] cli()/sti() cleanup, 2.5.27-A2 |
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Hi!
> > > It's not that we confuse flags with some other flag all that > > > frequently that would necessiate some structure-based more abstract > > > protection of these variables. > > are you sure type-checking is really needed? Sure people can mess up the > flags variable, but 64-bit archs could do a sizeof at compile-time.
Yes, it is needed; type-checking can be easily implemented as
{ unsigned long foo; (&foo == &arg); }
-- that gives warning when arg is not unsigned long. Pavel
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