Re: New kernel/resource.c

Jamie Lokier (lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Mon, 12 Jul 1999 17:42:31 +0200

Chip Salzenberg wrote:
> If you want to store a pointer, shouldn't 'data' be a union of a long
> and a void* ? Or does Linux already assume that pointers can be stored
> in longs?

Yes I noticed this in vm_area_struct too... `vm_pte' gets overloaded
from time to time. And so does `next_hash' in struct page.

-- Jamie

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