From: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
To: jengelh@computergmbh.de
Cc: miklos@szeredi.hu, adobriyan@gmail.com,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] type safe allocator
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 15:49:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1IGb3I-0001js-00@dorka.pomaz.szeredi.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708021534050.24572@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr> (message from Jan Engelhardt on Thu, 2 Aug 2007 15:35:56 +0200 (CEST))
> >> On Aug 2 2007 16:04, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> >> >On 8/2/07, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> wrote:
> >> >> fooptr = kmalloc(sizeof(struct foo), ...);
> >> >
> >> >Key word is "traditional". Good traditional form which even half-competent
> >> >C programmers immediately parse in retina.
> >>
> >> And being aware of the potential type-unsafety makes programmers more
> >> careful IMHO.
> >
> >That's a _really_ good reason ;)
>
> Yes, a good reason not to use g_new(), so people do get bitten when
> they are doingitwrong.
Should we turn off all warnings then, to make people more careful
after constantly being bitten by stupid mistakes?
That's one way to think of it, yes. But I think most would agree,
that we have better things to do than being careful about things that
the compiler can check for us.
Miklos
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-02 13:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-01 9:06 [RFC PATCH] " Miklos Szeredi
2007-08-01 9:29 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-08-01 9:41 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-08-01 10:44 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-01 9:57 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-08-01 11:34 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-01 10:45 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-08-01 11:44 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-08-01 11:56 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-08-02 3:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-02 7:27 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-08-02 12:05 ` Al Viro
2007-08-02 13:05 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-08-02 17:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-02 5:33 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-02 7:38 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-08-02 19:16 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-02 7:37 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-08-02 7:40 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-08-02 11:31 ` [PATCH] " Miklos Szeredi, Miklos Szeredi
2007-08-02 12:04 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2007-08-02 12:24 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-08-02 13:06 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-08-02 13:35 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-08-02 13:49 ` Miklos Szeredi [this message]
2007-08-02 13:47 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-08-02 14:06 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2007-08-02 14:08 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-08-02 18:36 ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-02 18:48 ` Miklos Szeredi
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