On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 6:30 AM Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> On Sat, May 30, 2020 at 06:11:19PM -0400, Brian Gerst wrote:
> > + if (0) { \
> > + typeof(_var) pto_tmp__; \
> > + pto_tmp__ = (_val); \
> > + (void)pto_tmp__; \
> > + } \
>
> This is repeated at least once more; and it looks very similar to
> __typecheck() and typecheck() but is yet another variant afaict.
The problem with typecheck() is that it will complain about a mismatch
between unsigned long and u64 (defined as unsigned long long) even
though both are 64-bits wide on x86-64. Cleaning that mess up is
beyond the scope of this series, so I kept the existing checks.
--
Brian Gerst
