Messages in this thread | | | From | Rusty Russell <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 5/5] typesafe: TIMER_INITIALIZER and setup_timer | Date | Tue, 5 Feb 2008 14:41:53 +1100 |
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On Tuesday 05 February 2008 01:57:37 Al Viro wrote: > On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 11:19:44PM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote: > > This patch lets timer callback functions have their natural type > > (ie. exactly match the data pointer type); it allows the old "unsigned > > long data" type as well. > > > > Downside: if you use the old "unsigned long" callback type, you won't > > get a warning if your data is not an unsigned long, due to the cast. > > No. There's much saner way to do that and it does not involve any gccisms > at all. I'd posted such patches quite a while ago; normal C constructs > are quite sufficient, TYVM.
If you're referring to your 1 Dec 2006 posting, it was enlightening, but I was unable to find any patches.
I'd be interested in seeing what you ended up with; I agree it'd be nice to kill that unsigned long.
Thanks, Rusty.
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