linux-kernel - Re: [announce] new tree: "fix all build warnings, on all configs"

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0810200957301.3518@nehalem.linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Mon, 20 Oct 2008 09:57:52 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [announce] new tree: "fix all build warnings, on all configs"



On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
> Presumably it *should* be:
> 
> 	*((char *)to + 4) = *((char *)from + 4);

That's what it is in the kenrel. The "before and after" versions were both 
from broken Ingo code.

		Linus
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