Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 Aug 2001 20:13:42 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: 2.4.9 does not compile [PATCH] | From | "David S. Miller" <> |
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From: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 05:08:40 +0200
BTW I just looked through the patch and I only found a single cast, so there was not much need for such dumb casts. Your patch now forced the cast into all of them...
The cast in the new version is not dumb, it's smart.
It's the programmer saying (to both the reader of the code and the compiler) "I want this comparison to use type X". Period.
There is no ambiguity, there are no multiple-evaluation issues, and no dumb warnings from the compiler.
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