Re: [BK PATCHES] 2.6.x libata fixes (mostly)

From: Roland Dreier
Date: Wed Feb 23 2005 - 17:09:48 EST


Prakash> If I am not totally mistaken this is not gcc4 friendly
Prakash> code. (lvalue thing...)

Actually you misread the code slightly. It's a little subtle, but
code like

*(__le32 *)prd = cpu_to_le32(len);

is not using a cast as an lvalue. It's dereferencing a cast and as
such is totally correct, idiomatic and clean C.

- Roland
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