linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] type safe allocator

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Message-ID: <p73643zpjy8.fsf@bingen.suse.de>
Date:	01 Aug 2007 13:34:23 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
Cc:	andi@...stfloor.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] type safe allocator

Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu> writes:
> 
> #define k_new(type, flags) ((type *) kmalloc(sizeof(type), flags))

The cast doesn't make it more safe in any way

(at least as long as you don't care about portability to C++;
the kernel doesn't)

-Andi
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