Re: [current tinderbox] failure on ...all...

From: Dag-Erling Smørgrav (des_at_des.no)
Date: 06/10/05

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    To: Joseph Koshy <joseph.koshy@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 11:06:16 +0200

    Joseph Koshy <joseph.koshy@gmail.com> writes:
    > Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@des.no> writes:
    > > It also seems strange to me that you on the one hand introduce a
    > > new struct to separate MD and MI interfaces, and on the other hand
    > > continue to assume that they are assignment-compatible.
    > I'd be very surprised if two C structures with identical definitions
    > were not assignment compatible.

    I wouldn't be surprised if the standard says they aren't.
    Unfortunately, my copy is at home.

    > The code in question would have
    > changed (to something like what it is now) had the MD struct changed
    > in the future.

    Of course, but you wouldn't be able to run an old userland on a new
    kernel. I thought that was (much of) the point of separating MI from
    MD.

    Please fix your MUA to attribute what it quotes.

    DES 

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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des@des.no
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