Re: 2.4.9 does not compile [PATCH]

From: David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Date: Thu Aug 16 2001 - 21:59:06 EST


   From: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
   Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 04:53:18 +0200

   Most of the time that cast isn't needed and rather an indicator that
   something else is wrong, right now we don't even have a chance to detect
   such a situation.

Wrong. This is legal:

int test(unsigned long a, int b)
{
        return min(a, b);
}

And the compiler will warn about it with your typeof version.
That is dumb and unacceptable.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
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