Re: [PATCH] ARM: Wrong size used in dump_mem()

From: roel kluin
Date: Thu Dec 17 2009 - 16:20:49 EST


On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:17 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux
<linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:15:58PM +0100, Roel Kluin wrote:
>> The sizeof the pointed to should be used rather than of the pointer
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@xxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> Unless I am mistaken?
>
> You are mistaken. Âsizeof(array) is the byte size of the array.
> sizeof(*array) is the size of one individual object of the array.
>
> The code is correct as is - which is to fill Âthe entire array with
> space characters and then zero the last one.

hmm, I see. sorry for the noise
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