[Crash-utility] [PATCH] Remove the VOID_PTR facilitator macro

[Petr Tesarik]

Dne čtvrtek 27 Leden 2011 19:47:41 Dave Anderson napsal(a):
> ----- Original Message -----
> 
> > Hi Dave,
> > 
> > > BTW, was there a reason that you changed this?:
> > >                  if (si->c_flags & SLAB_CFLGS_BUFCTL)
> > > 
> > > - obj = si->s_mem + ((next - si->s_index) * si->c_offset);
> > > + obj = si->s_mem + (next - si->s_index) * si->c_offset;
> > 
> > It wasn't my patch so I'm only offering my ACK for the original change
> > and my reason is that multiply has higher operator precedence than add
> > (and subtract) in normal arithmetic so the outer parentheses were
> > never necessary anyway. They didn't create an error but they weren't
> > needed either. The inner parentheses are required.
> > 
> > --
> > David Mair.
> 
> Right I understand that, but the sources are full of such
> "extra" parentheses, some to prevent compiler warnings, but
> mostly just for ease of maintainability/understanding.
> 
> I just was wondering why that line was explicitly changed.

No reason, except I removed them for some reason while developing the patch 
and forgot to put them back afterwards. I can leave it as-is.

Oh, I've just realized that this actually changed the expression, because 
originally both variables were pointers to ulong, so

(next - si->s_index)

should become

((next - si->s_index)/sizeof(ulong))

I wonder whether this was originally intended. Let me have one more look at 
this.

Petr