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Message-ID: <20070705191358.GQ21478@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 20:13:59 +0100
From: Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>
To: Josh Triplett <josht@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@...edesktop.org>, linux-sparse@...r.kernel.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] bloody mess with __attribute__() syntax
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 11:50:56AM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 17:43 +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 08:36:35AM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > > Wow. Insane. So these all declare the same type:
> > > __attribute__((foo)) T *v;
> > > T __attribute__((foo)) *v;
> > > T *__attribute__((foo)) v;
> > > ? Specifically, they point to a foo-T, for convenient shooting?
> >
> > They all give you foo-pointer-to-T.
> > T (__attribute__((foo)) *v);
> > would give pointer-to-foo-T.
>
> Doesn't that do exactly what we want, then? If we say
> T __attribute__((noderef)) *v;
> , we want a noderef-pointer-to-T, not a pointer-to-noderef-T. noderef
> should modify a pointer.
No. int __user *v is pointer to noderef,address_space(1) int. Same
as int const *v is pointer to const int. Noderef is a property of
object being pointed to, _not_ the pointer itself.
And yes, I know that we store it ->modifiers of SYM_PTR - that saves us
a SYM_NODE we'd have to insert otherwise. Same as with the rest of
qualifiers.
The same goes for address_space. The same goes for const and volatile.
If you have struct foo {int x;}; struct foo __user *p; then &p->x will
be &((*p).x), i.e. &(<__user struct foo>.x), i.e. &(<__user int>), i.e.
int __user *. __user is not a property of pointer; it couldn't work if
it would be.
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