linux-kernel - Re: ALIGN

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Message-ID: <20070310080126.GA22960@flower.upol.cz>
Date:	Sat, 10 Mar 2007 09:01:26 +0100
From:	Oleg Verych <olecom@...wer.upol.cz>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	benh@...nel.crashing.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	hpa@...or.com, johannes@...solutions.net
Subject: Re: ALIGN

On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 08:38:27AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Oleg Verych wrote:
> >
> > Probably it can be used to get rid of gccisms and "type fluff" due to
> > bitwise arithmetics in ALIGN?
> 
> Hell no.
> 
> The typeof is there to make sure we have the right type, and it's simple.

Right. Now i see.

Thanks!
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