Re: [PATCH] new ioctl type checking causes gcc warning

[Andreas Schwab]

"Kevin P. Fleming" <kpfleming@xxxxxxx> writes:

> --- linux-2.6.0-test5/include/asm-i386/ioctl.h~	Mon Sep  8 12:49:52 2003
> +++ linux-2.6.0-test5/include/asm-i386/ioctl.h	Fri Sep 12 11:58:41 2003
> @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
>   	 ((size) << _IOC_SIZESHIFT))
>
>   /* provoke compile error for invalid uses of size argument */
> -extern int __invalid_size_argument_for_IOC;
> +extern unsigned int __invalid_size_argument_for_IOC;

Why not make it size_t which is what sizeof actually returns?

Andreas.

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