Hi!
> From: Julia Lawall <[email protected]>
>
> In the patch cc154ac64aa8d3396b187f64cef01ce67f433324, Al Viro observed
> that the proper way to compute the distance between two structure fields is
> to use offsetof() or a cast to a pointer to character. The same change can
> be applied to a few more files.
>
> The change was made using the following semantic patch
> (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/)
>
> // <smpl>
> @r@
> type T;
> T s;
> type T1, T2;
> identifier fld1, fld2;
> typedef uint8_t;
> typedef u8;
> @@
>
> (
> (char *)&s.fld1 - (char *)&s.fld2
> |
> (uint8_t *)&s.fld1 - (uint8_t *)&s.fld2
> |
> (u8 *)&s.fld1 - (u8 *)&s.fld2
> |
> - (T1)&s.fld1 - (T2)&s.fld2
> + offsetof(T,fld1) - offsetof(T,fld2)
> )
> // </smpl>
>
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <[email protected]>
> ---
>
> diff -u -p a/arch/x86/kernel/vm86_32.c b/arch/x86/kernel/vm86_32.c
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/vm86_32.c 2007-10-22 11:25:00.000000000 +0200
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vm86_32.c 2007-12-26 16:27:15.000000000 +0100
> @@ -215,7 +215,9 @@ asmlinkage int sys_vm86old(struct pt_reg
> ret = -EFAULT;
> if (tmp)
> goto out;
> - memset(&info.vm86plus, 0, (int)&info.regs32 - (int)&info.vm86plus);
> + memset(&info.vm86plus, 0,
> + offsetof(struct kernel_vm86_struct, regs32) -
> + offsetof(struct kernel_vm86_struct, vm86plus));
I do not think this makes it more readable... (int) -> (char *) would
make it portable and readable, AFAICT.
Pavel
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