[current tinderbox] failure on ...all...

Dag-Erling Smørgrav des at des.no
Fri Jun 10 09:06:23 GMT 2005


Joseph Koshy <joseph.koshy at gmail.com> writes:
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at des.no> writes:
> > It also seems strange to me that you on the one hand introduce a
> > new struct to separate MD and MI interfaces, and on the other hand
> > continue to assume that they are assignment-compatible.
> I'd be very surprised if two C structures with identical definitions
> were not assignment compatible.

I wouldn't be surprised if the standard says they aren't.
Unfortunately, my copy is at home.

>                                  The code in question would have
> changed (to something like what it is now) had the MD struct changed
> in the future.

Of course, but you wouldn't be able to run an old userland on a new
kernel.  I thought that was (much of) the point of separating MI from
MD.

Please fix your MUA to attribute what it quotes.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des at des.no



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