Re: [PATCH] no need to cast pointer to (void *) when passing it to kfree()

On Tue, 5 April 2005 12:39:44 +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, David Howells wrote:
> > Jesper Juhl <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > > kfree() takes a void pointer argument, no need to cast.
> > 
> > vma->vm_start is unsigned long (unless it's changed since last I looked):
> > 
> As I wrote in the reply I send to my original mail I made a stupid 
> mistake. Don't know what I was thinking. Sorry.

Your thinking wasn't that bad, just didn't match the language.  As
Linus already noted, C could use a truly transparent data type, for
things like kmalloc, kfree, or the various ->private_data fields in
structs.

Jörn

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References:
- [PATCH] no need to cast pointer to (void *) when passing it to kfree()
  - From: Jesper Juhl <[email protected]>
- Re: [PATCH] no need to cast pointer to (void *) when passing it to kfree()
  - From: David Howells <[email protected]>
- Re: [PATCH] no need to cast pointer to (void *) when passing it to kfree()
  - From: Jesper Juhl <[email protected]>

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