linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] typechecking for get_unaligned/put

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Date:	Tue, 17 Oct 2006 10:04:00 +0100
From:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:	Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] typechecking for get_unaligned/put_unaligned 

Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk> wrote:

> 	* sizeof(*ptr) should be one of 1, 2, 4, 8

Should we give an error if someone tries passing a 1-byte-sized memory location
to get/put_unaligned()?  I suspect it might be best to reduce to a trivial
direct assignment in that case.

David
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