Andreas Färber wrote:
>
> Am 04.01.2008 um 15:00 schrieb Samuel Thibault:
>
>> Andreas Färber, le Fri 04 Jan 2008 14:41:29 +0100, a écrit :
>>>
>>> Am 04.01.2008 um 14:20 schrieb Thiemo Seufer:
>>>
>>>> Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon wrote:
>>>>> Trivial fix that ensures that all buffers used for bdrv_read or
>>>>> bdrv_write
>>>>> are from an array of the uint8_t type
>>>>
>>>> Do we have a host where this actually makes a difference?
>>>
>>> I believe Perl makes sizeof(char) checks, so there likely is some
>>> platform where sizeof(char) > 1.
>>
>> The C standard says
>>
>> `When applied to an operand that has type char, unsigned char, or signed
>> char, (or a qualified version thereof) the result is 1.'

AFAIR this is C99 ...

> The standard maybe. But Win64 violates the C standards, too. ;)
>
> According to our department's ANSI C course, the only consistent rule is
> sizeof(char) <= sizeof(short) <= sizeof(int) <= sizeof(long)
> without any concrete numbers.

... and this is C89.


Thiemo


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