linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Cast removal

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Date:	Thu, 5 Oct 2006 10:00:19 +0200 (MEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
cc:	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>, Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	ACPI List <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Cast removal


>> > > I'm okay applying this patch it touches the linux-specific
>> > > drivers/acpi/* files only, no ACPICA files.
>> > 
>> > Why?
>> 
>> Why am I okay with it?
>
>No, I meant why not clean up ACPICA too?

I was about to go through the whole kernel base for anti-casting. Sounds 
like a big task, and probably is. I just did not want to do it all at 
once and send a mega-patch. Instead, a per-directory walk seems best to 
me, and granted, "dispatcher events executer hardware namespace" and all 
the other directories under drivers/acpi/ were supposed to be the next 
to be examined for casts.
    Though if you have problems with that because compiling with ugh, 
old or broken, compilers, be my guest. 
http://www.velocityreviews.com/forums/t313918-void-casting.html
"""If your compiler requires a cast, you are using a C++ compiler."""
Is that the case?



	-`J'
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