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Re: [PATCH] kernel/fork.c: use sizeof() instead of sizeof

From Kevin Easton <kevin@guarana.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] kernel/fork.c: use sizeof() instead of sizeof
Date 2016-02-03 05:00 +0100
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On Tue, Feb 02, 2016 at 05:04:06PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
 
> FWIW, the actual rules are
> 	unary-expression: postfix-expression |
> 			  ++ unary-expression |
> 			  -- unary-expression |
> 			  - cast-expression |
> 			  + cast-expression |
> 			  ! cast-expression |
> 			  ~ cast-expression |
> 			  * cast-expression |
> 			  & cast-expression |
> 			  sizeof unary-expression |
> 			  sizeof ( type-name )
> 	cast-expression: unary-expression |
> 			 ( type-name ) cast-expression
> Note that while e.g.
> 	++ ++ n
> is allowed by grammar, it runs afoul of the constraint for ++ argument, which
> must be a modifiable lvalue.  None of the operators above yield that, so
> the rules for ++ and -- might as well have been ++ postfix-expression and
> -- postfix-expression resp.

Unless I'm mistaken, * cast-expression yields an lvalue.

    - Kevin

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[PATCH] kernel/fork.c: use sizeof() instead of sizeof Wei Tang <tangwei@cmss.chinamobile.com> - 2016-02-02 09:00 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] kernel/fork.c: use sizeof() instead of sizeof Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2016-02-02 10:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] treewide: Use 'sizeof(x)' instead of 'sizeof x' Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2016-02-02 15:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] kernel/fork.c: use sizeof() instead of sizeof Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> - 2016-02-02 16:50 +0100
      Re: [PATCH] kernel/fork.c: use sizeof() instead of sizeof Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2016-02-02 18:10 +0100
        Re: [PATCH] kernel/fork.c: use sizeof() instead of sizeof Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> - 2016-02-02 18:20 +0100
          Re: [PATCH] kernel/fork.c: use sizeof() instead of sizeof Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2016-02-02 19:00 +0100
      Re: [PATCH] kernel/fork.c: use sizeof() instead of sizeof Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> - 2016-02-02 18:10 +0100
        Re: [PATCH] kernel/fork.c: use sizeof() instead of sizeof Kevin Easton <kevin@guarana.org> - 2016-02-03 05:00 +0100
          Re: [PATCH] kernel/fork.c: use sizeof() instead of sizeof Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> - 2016-02-03 05:10 +0100

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