linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ptrdiff_t is not uintptr

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Message-Id: <200708211153.27371.david-b@pacbell.net>
Date:	Tue, 21 Aug 2007 11:53:27 -0700
From:	David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net>
To:	Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ptrdiff_t is not uintptr_t, damnit

On Sunday 19 August 2007, Al Viro wrote:
> Use unsigned long or uintptr_t instead.  There are several places misusing
> ptrdiff_t (one - in a very odd way; WTF did that cast to __user ptrdiff_t 
> in ntfs expect to happen, anyway?)   Fixed...
> 
> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>

By the way:  ACK.  Glad there's now always a "uintptr_t".
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