On Wednesday 11 July 2012, David Rientjes wrote:
> Wouldn't it be better to avoid this problem more generally by casting the
> __alignof__ for ARCH_{KMALLOC,SLAB}_MINALIGN to int in slab.h? All
> architectures that define these themselves will be using plain integers,
> the problem is __alignof__ returning size_t when undefined.
I thought about it but I wasn't sure if that would cover all possible
cases. My version at least is known not to introduce a different type
mismatch on another architecture.
Also, size_t seems to be the correct type here, while the untyped
definition is just an int.
Arnd
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