Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: sizeof problem in kernel modules | Date | Mon, 25 Jun 2001 17:25:40 -0400 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> said: > One more tidbit: ISO/IEC 9899:1990 3.14 > > 3.14 object: A region of data storage in the execution environment, > the contents of which can represent values. Except for > bit-fields, objects are composed of contiguous sequences of one or > more bytes, the number, order and encoding of which are either > explicitely specified or implementation-defined. > > This would specifically prohibit separating any part of a structure > from the rest.
It just prohibits separating bytes, not subobjects. I.e., everything can be handled as an array of bytes (of the appropiate length, as given by sizeof()) -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand Usuario #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 - 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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