Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763548AbXHAKj5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Aug 2007 06:39:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754045AbXHAKju (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Aug 2007 06:39:50 -0400 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:53183 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754334AbXHAKjt (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Aug 2007 06:39:49 -0400 To: Miklos Szeredi Cc: andi@firstfloor.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] type safe allocator References: From: Andi Kleen Date: 01 Aug 2007 13:34:23 +0200 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 496 Lines: 10 Miklos Szeredi writes: > > #define k_new(type, flags) ((type *) kmalloc(sizeof(type), flags)) The cast doesn't make it more safe in any way (at least as long as you don't care about portability to C++; the kernel doesn't) -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/