On Dec 26 2007 17:01, H. Peter Anvin wrote:The right way to do it is:@@ -215,7 +215,9 @@ asmlinkage int sys_vm86old(struct pt_regI do not think this makes it more readable... (int) -> (char *) would
ret = -EFAULT;
if (tmp)
goto out;
- memset(&info.vm86plus, 0, (int)&info.regs32 - (int)&info.vm86plus);
+ memset(&info.vm86plus, 0,
+ offsetof(struct kernel_vm86_struct, regs32) -
+ offsetof(struct kernel_vm86_struct, vm86plus));
make it portable and readable, AFAICT.
Pavel
memset(&info.vm86plus, 0, sizeof info.vm86plus);
Either way, downcasting a pointer to (int) is dangerous,
even if this one occurrence happens to be in 32-bit-only code.