linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 07/16] GFS2: Directory handling

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Date:	Tue, 5 Sep 2006 12:58:13 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Andreas Schwab <schwab@...e.de>
Cc:	Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@...hat.com>,
	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Russell Cattelan <cattelan@...hat.com>,
	David Teigland <teigland@...hat.com>, hch@...radead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/16] GFS2: Directory handling


* Andreas Schwab <schwab@...e.de> wrote:

> >> > >+	if (dent->de_inum.no_addr != 0 &&
> >> > >+	    be32_to_cpu(dent->de_hash) == name->hash &&
> >> > >+	    be16_to_cpu(dent->de_name_len) == name->len &&
> >> > >+	    memcmp((char *)(dent+1), name->name, name->len) == 0)
> >> > 
> >> > Nocast.
> >> > 
> >> ok
> >
> > actually, sizeof(*dent) != 1, so how can a non-casted memcmp be correct 
> > here?
> 
> How can the cast change anything?

yeah - i for a minute thought that the '+' is outside the cast - but it 
is inside.

	Ingo
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