Re: [TTY] 2 points seems strange to me.

[linux-os]

On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Paulo Marques wrote:
> Franck Bui-Huu wrote:
>
> > Looking at TTY code, I noticed a weird test done in "opost_bock"
> > located in n_tty.c file. I don't understand why the following test is
> > done at the start of the function:
> > if (nr > sizeof(buf))
> >        nr = sizeof(buf);
> > Actually it limits the size of processing blocks to 4 bytes and I can't
> > find a reason why.
>
> No, it limits the size to 80 bytes,
> which is the size of buf.
>
> sizeof returns the size of the char array buf[80]
> (standard C)

Huh?? "buf" is a pointer. On this system pointers are 4-bytes
in length. What "standard C" are you using? Frank found a bug.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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