Re: [PATCH V2] sparse: Allow override of sizeof(bool) warning

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Thu Feb 27 2014 - 11:01:31 EST


On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 07:48:35AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> No, but I think we can certainly make a list... a lot of it right now
> sits in various people's heads.
>
> Here are a couple:
>
> - Bytes are 8 bits
> - Signed integers will be 2's complement
> - sizeof char, short, int, long, and long long will be 1, 2, 4, 4, 8 or
^ ^
bool, ,1 ,


> 1, 2, 4, 8, 8 on 32- and 64-bit processors, respectively.
> - sizeof(long) == sizeof(void *)
> - NULL is represented by all zero
> - Structures will not add padding as long as all the members are
> naturally aligned.
>
> Someone want to set up a collaborative document of some kind and collect
> more?

https://wiki.kernel.org/ but I hear spammers love it.

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