Am Mittwoch, 7. Februar 2007 23:45 schrieb Pete Zaitcev:
> On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 21:26:36 +0100, Oliver Neukum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > > It would not, if le16_to_cpu took a pointer to u8. But as it is,
> > > functions are quite different.
> > 
> > That's what casts are for. However, why do you have no type information
> > in the first place? Untyped data is risky.
> 
> You are right, the traditionalist way is weak in this regard.
> And I saw people applying ntohs to a long and vice versa before.
> 
> However, don't you discard the typing as well whenever get_unaligned
> is involved? The function itself is always sized correctly
> with the use of typeof, but then it returns u64 and thus the
> subsequent le16_to_cpu becomes unchecked. I think Alan was on to
> something with his sized get_unaligned ideas.

Definitely. We need something like this.

        Regards
                Oliver

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