Ingo Oeser <[email protected]> writes:
> Hi,
>
> On Monday, 1. January 2007 07:37, Amit Choudhary wrote:
>> --- Ingo Oeser <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > #define kfree_nullify(x) do { \
>> > if (__builtin_constant_p(x)) { \
>> > kfree(x); \
>> > } else { \
>> > typeof(x) *__addr_x = &x; \
>
> Ok, I should change that line to
> typeof(x) *__addr_x = &(x); \
>
>> > kfree(*__addr_x); \
>> > *__addr_x = NULL; \
>> > } \
>> > } while (0)
>> >
>> > Regards
>> >
>> > Ingo Oeser
>> >
>>
>> This is a nice approach but what if someone does kfree_nullify(x+20).
>
> Then this works, because the side effect (+20) is evaluated only once.
It's not a side effect, it's a non-lvalue, and you can't take the address
of a non-lvalue.
Andreas.
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