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Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 09:19:20 -0600 (MDT)
From: Thunder from the hill <thunder@ngforever.de>
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To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
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Subject: Re: Further madness in fs/partitions/check.c?
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Hi,

On Sat, 13 Jul 2002, James Bottomley wrote:
> This is transient code to save the device in the driver_data.  It is
> later picked back out at line 229.  It conforms to the old programmer
> principle that if you can always guarantee your data takes up less space
> than a pointer (on all archs), then you might as well just cast the data
> into the pointer instead of wasting a malloc for it.

However, it issues a warning.

							Regards,
							Thunder
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