I was speaking generally, as far as casting issues go with ACPICA. We
have lots of compilers to support, as well as 16/32/64 bit issues. We
are about to remove the 16-bit support, which will clean things up a
bit.
I would appreciate a couple of examples of exactly what is being
discussed.
Thanks.
Bob
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:linux-acpi-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Jan Engelhardt
> Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 1:00 AM
> To: Andrew Morton
> Cc: Len Brown; Brown, Len; Linux Kernel Mailing List; ACPI List
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Cast removal
>
>
> >> > > I'm okay applying this patch it touches the linux-specific
> >> > > drivers/acpi/* files only, no ACPICA files.
> >> >
> >> > Why?
> >>
> >> Why am I okay with it?
> >
> >No, I meant why not clean up ACPICA too?
>
> I was about to go through the whole kernel base for anti-casting.
Sounds
> like a big task, and probably is. I just did not want to do it all at
> once and send a mega-patch. Instead, a per-directory walk seems best
to
> me, and granted, "dispatcher events executer hardware namespace" and
all
> the other directories under drivers/acpi/ were supposed to be the next
> to be examined for casts.
> Though if you have problems with that because compiling with ugh,
> old or broken, compilers, be my guest.
> http://www.velocityreviews.com/forums/t313918-void-casting.html
> """If your compiler requires a cast, you are using a C++ compiler."""
> Is that the case?
>
>
>
> -`J'
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