netdev - Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH iwl-next v2 5/5] ixgbe: drop unnecessary constant casts to u16

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Message-ID: <06b5938a-0238-4da0-8b8b-dc2df95210f1@jacekk.info>
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2025 13:13:57 +0200
From: Jacek Kowalski <jacek@...ekk.info>
To: "Loktionov, Aleksandr" <aleksandr.loktionov@...el.com>,
 "Nguyen, Anthony L" <anthony.l.nguyen@...el.com>,
 "Kitszel, Przemyslaw" <przemyslaw.kitszel@...el.com>,
 Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>, "David S. Miller"
 <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
 Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
 Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>
Cc: "intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org" <intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org>,
 "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH iwl-next v2 5/5] ixgbe: drop unnecessary
 constant casts to u16

> So, the change looks scary for the first glance, but GCC actually
> handles it the same way.

Basically if there are differences, it would be a compiler bug
due to violation of C language specification.

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Best regards,
  Jacek Kowalski