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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] Introduce and use absolute_pointer macro
Date:   Thu, 16 Sep 2021 09:02:17 +0200
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On Wednesday, 2021-09-15 23:19 Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Ok, I didn't love any of the patches I saw for the qnx4 problem, so I
> silenced that warning with a new patch of my own. Like the sparc64
> case, the fix is to describe more extensively to the compiler what the
> code is actually doing.

thanks, looks good to me, too!

> Looking at the qnx4 code-base history, I don't think it has gotten any
> actual development outside of cleanups in the git history timeframe,
> which makes me suspect nobody uses this code.
> 
> But hey, maybe it just works so well for the very specialized user base ...

it's actually the latter (although I guess the user base is shrinking)

Cheers
Anders