Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 17:12 -0500, Ming Zhang wrote: >> See this code piece >> >> http://lxr.linux.no/source/drivers/scsi/libata-scsi.c?v=2.6.18#L1049 >> >> 1056 lba |= ((u64)scsicmd[2]) << 24; >> 1057 lba |= ((u64)scsicmd[3]) << 16; >> 1058 lba |= ((u64)scsicmd[4]) << 8; >> 1059 lba |= ((u64)scsicmd[5]); >> >> it can also be written as >> >> lba = be32_to_cpu(*(u32 *)(&scsicmd[2]) ISO/IEC 9899:1999(E) "6.5 Expressions" [#7] For example, what is the alignment of ``scsicmd'' ? ~velco -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/