Re: [RFC][PATCH] rcu: Use typeof(p) instead of typeof(*p) *

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Tuesday 2021-10-05 20:06, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
>> instead of just "typeof(p)", to force the decay to a pointer.
>
>If the type of @p is an integer, (p) + 0 is still valid, so it will not
>prevent users from passing an integer type as argument, which is what
>the current implementation prevents.
>
>Also, AFAIU, the compiler wants to know the sizeof(p) in order to evaluate
>(p + 0). Steven's goal is to hide the structure declaration, so that would
>not work either.

>>>> typeof(*p) *________p1 = (typeof(*p) *__force)READ_ONCE(p);


#define static_cast(type, expr) ((struct { type x; }){(expr)}.x)
typeof(p) p1 = (typeof(p) __force)static_cast(void *, READ_ONCE(p));

Let the name not fool you; it's absolutely _not_ the same as C++'s 
static_cast, but still: it does emit a warning when you do pass an 
integer, which is better than no warning at all in that case.

 *flies away*