Re: [RFC v2 1/7] hashtable: introduce a small and naive hashtable

[Tejun Heo]

Hello,

On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 11:41:34PM +0200, Sasha Levin wrote:
> I forgot to comment on that one, sorry.
> 
> If we put hash entries after struct hash_table we don't take the
> bits field size into account, or did I miss something?

So, if you do the following,

	struct {
		struct {
			int i;
			long ar[];
		} B;
		long __ar_storage[32];
	} A;

It should always be safe to dereference A.B.ar[31].  I'm not sure
whether this is something guaranteed by C tho.  Maybe compilers are
allowed to put members in reverse order but I think we already depend
on the above.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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