Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 4 Sep 2002 20:04:24 -0400 | From | Benjamin LaHaise <> | Subject | Re: Large block device patch, part 1 of 9 |
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On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 09:04:01AM +1000, Peter Chubb wrote: > Unfortunately, this doesn't really buy you much ---- standard C type > promotion rules mean that whatever (within reason) you pass to > llsect() will work without warning.
Not if someone changes a variable to a pointer by accident without updating the printk. It does happen.
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