Re: [PATCH] ptrdiff_t is not uintptr_t, damnit

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From: David Brownell

Subject: Re: [PATCH] ptrdiff_t is not uintptr_t, damnit

Date: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 - 11:53 am

On Sunday 19 August 2007, Al Viro wrote:
quoted text> Use unsigned long or uintptr_t instead.  There are several places misusing
> ptrdiff_t (one - in a very odd way; WTF did that cast to __user ptrdiff_t 
> in ntfs expect to happen, anyway?)   Fixed...
> 
> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

By the way:  ACK.  Glad there's now always a "uintptr_t".
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[PATCH] ptrdiff_t is not uintptr_t, damnit, Al Viro, (Sun Aug 19, 3:55 pm)

Re: [PATCH] ptrdiff_t is not uintptr_t, damnit, David Brownell, (Sun Aug 19, 5:19 pm)

Re: [PATCH] ptrdiff_t is not uintptr_t, damnit, Anton Altaparmakov, (Sun Aug 19, 5:27 pm)

Re: [PATCH] ptrdiff_t is not uintptr_t, damnit, Anton Altaparmakov, (Sun Aug 19, 5:29 pm)

Re: [PATCH] ptrdiff_t is not uintptr_t, damnit, Al Viro, (Sun Aug 19, 5:52 pm)

Re: [PATCH] ptrdiff_t is not uintptr_t, damnit, Al Viro, (Sun Aug 19, 5:57 pm)

Re: [PATCH] ptrdiff_t is not uintptr_t, damnit, David Brownell, (Sun Aug 19, 5:57 pm)

Re: [PATCH] ptrdiff_t is not uintptr_t, damnit, David Brownell, (Sun Aug 19, 6:12 pm)

Re: [PATCH] ptrdiff_t is not uintptr_t, damnit, Satyam Sharma, (Sun Aug 19, 8:01 pm)

Re: [PATCH] ptrdiff_t is not uintptr_t, damnit, David Brownell, (Sun Aug 19, 8:26 pm)

Re: [PATCH] ptrdiff_t is not uintptr_t, damnit, Al Viro, (Sun Aug 19, 8:40 pm)

Re: [PATCH] ptrdiff_t is not uintptr_t, damnit, David Brownell, (Sun Aug 19, 9:17 pm)

Re: [PATCH] ptrdiff_t is not uintptr_t, damnit, David Brownell, (Tue Aug 21, 11:53 am)


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