On Wed, 8 Oct 2014, Dan Carpenter wrote: > On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 05:26:11AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > > On Wed, 2014-10-08 at 13:40 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: > > > The return from myid() isn't aligned correctly for ether_addr_copy(). > > > > Hey Dan. > > > > Actual evidence showing ether_addr_copy conversions > > may not always be wise. > > > > How did you find them? > > I was just trying to see how common these kinds of bugs are. It didn't > take long to find, but my impression is that they are rare and I got > lucky. These kinds of bugs are tricky to find and we don't have any > tools for it. Couldn't you just use your favorite matching tool, collect the file names, compile them, run pahole, and process the output in some way? It doesn't give a complete analysis (you don't find all problems), but if you find a problem it is a real problem. julia _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
