Re: [PATCH 0/4 V2] Remove a few macros

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On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 09:11:53AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> 
> What was there to argue? Christoph wants us to rely on undocumented,
> compiler specific behaviour(*),

It is not undocumented.  Sections like this have been part of the
gcc manual for at least 25 years:

https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Pointer-Arith.html

> I want it the pointer arithmetic to
> be explicitly correct with a cast.
> 
> Maintainer's choice, really.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Dave.
> 
> (*) It's been repeatedly demonstrated that the gcc developers don't
> care if they break code that relies on undefined behaviour in the C
> standard.

But this behavior is not undefined.  It is explicitly defined for gcc,
with other compilers (LLVM, icc) following that specification.
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