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On Tuesday 13 September 2005 10:42, Nikita Danilov wrote: > Pekka J Enberg writes: > > [...] > > > + > > +The kernel provides the following general purpose memory allocators: > > +kmalloc(), kzalloc(), kcalloc(), and vmalloc(). Please refer to the API > > +documentation for further information about them. > > + > > +The preferred form for passing a size of a struct is the following: > > + > > + p = kmalloc(sizeof(*p), ...); > > Parentheses around *p are superfluous. See > > > The C Programming Language, Second Edition > > by Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie. I remember that sizeof has two forms: sizeof(type) and sizeof(expr), and in one of them ()'s are optional. But I fail to remember in which one. I use ()'s always. Thanks for refreshing my memory but I'm sure I'll forget again ;) -- vda - 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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