linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Use more gcc extensions in the Linux headers

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Date:	Fri, 9 Mar 2007 17:22:43 +1100
From:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Cc:	lkml - Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use more gcc extensions in the Linux headers

On Fri, 09 Mar 2007 16:56:32 +1100 Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au> wrote:
>
> __builtin_types_compatible_p() has been around since gcc 2.95, and we
> don't use it anywhere.  This patch quietly fixes that.

After staring at this for about 2 minutes, how about a commit message like:

Make ARRAY_SIZE complain strangely if passed a pointer instead of an
array.

:-)
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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@...b.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

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