Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ensure all invocations to bdrv_{read, write} use (uint8_t *) for its third parameter

[Samuel Thibault]

Andreas Färber, le Fri 04 Jan 2008 14:41:29 +0100, a écrit :
> 
> Am 04.01.2008 um 14:20 schrieb Thiemo Seufer:
> 
> >Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon wrote:
> >>Trivial fix that ensures that all buffers used for bdrv_read or  
> >>bdrv_write
> >>are from an array of the uint8_t type
> >
> >Do we have a host where this actually makes a difference?
> 
> I believe Perl makes sizeof(char) checks, so there likely is some  
> platform where sizeof(char) > 1.

The C standard says

`When applied to an operand that has type char, unsigned char, or signed
char, (or a qualified version thereof) the result is 1.'

Samuel