Re: Being more anal about iospace accesses..

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, Nikita Danilov wrote:
> 
> Unfortunately it breaks even better identity
> 
>   foo *p;
> 
>   p + nr == (foo *)((char *)p + nr * sizeof *p)

No, gcc allows the above, by making sizeof(void) be 1.

And sane compilers would just inform the user at compile-time with a nice
readable message that he's doing something stupid.

		Linus
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