Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Thu, 15 Mar 2018 16:46:57 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] kernel.h: Introduce const_max() for VLA removal |
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On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 4:41 PM, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote: > > I much prefer explicit typing, but both you and Rasmus mentioned > wanting the int/sizeof_t mixing.
Well, the explicit typing allows that mixing, in that you can just have "const_max_t(5,sizeof(x))"
So I'm ok with that.
What I'm *not* so much ok with is "const_max(5,sizeof(x))" erroring out, or silently causing insane behavior due to hidden subtle type casts..
Linus
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