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Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 20:04:24 -0400
From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
To: Peter Chubb <peter@chubb.wattle.id.au>
Cc: Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de>, Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>,
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Subject: Re: Large block device patch, part 1 of 9
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On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 09:04:01AM +1000, Peter Chubb wrote:
> Unfortunately, this doesn't really buy you much ---- standard C type
> promotion rules mean that whatever (within reason) you pass to
> llsect() will work without warning.

Not if someone changes a variable to a pointer by accident without 
updating the printk.  It does happen.

		-ben
-- 
"You will be reincarnated as a toad; and you will be much happier."
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