linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ARM: Wrong size used in dump

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Message-ID: <25e057c00912171320m3c596ecancafc568cedfd70b8@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:20:18 +0100
From:	roel kluin <roel.kluin@...il.com>
To:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
Cc:	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: Wrong size used in dump_mem()

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:17 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux
<linux@....linux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:15:58PM +0100, Roel Kluin wrote:
>> The sizeof the pointed to should be used rather than of the pointer
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@...il.com>
>> ---
>> Unless I am mistaken?
>
> You are mistaken.  sizeof(array) is the byte size of the array.
> sizeof(*array) is the size of one individual object of the array.
>
> The code is correct as is - which is to fill  the entire array with
> space characters and then zero the last one.

hmm, I see. sorry for the noise
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