Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 30 Jul 2002 12:21:04 -0400 (EDT) | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] resolve ACPI oops on boot |
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On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Dominik Brodowski wrote:
> The casts were probably introduced for that reason. Per se, they are not > critical - but if there is any assumption later on that the data structure > is indeed of the large size, there is a problem.
Perhaps the pointer chould be (void *) everywhere, and then cast to the right size where and when it is used. Clearly casting the pointer to a larger size will result in allignment issues on some machines.
-- bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.
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