On Thu, 19 May 2022 19:29:36 +0300 Vasily Averin <vvs@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Frankly speaking I vote for performance with both hands. > However I'm still would like to avoid new sparse warnings. > Christoph Hellwig just recently taught me, "never add '__force' before > thinking hard about them", but in this case I would need to use it three times. > > I found that bitwise typecasts can be avoided by using translation unions. > > What do you think about following trick? It's really up to you memory management folks. Although I may need to update libtraceevent to handle the union case. That may be a bit tricky. -- Steve