Re: testsuite failures in mainline...

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>

Date

Dec 15, 2007, 01:18 UTC

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<Pine.LNX.4.64.0712150117330.27959@racer.site>

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<20071214.160845.185161708.davem@davemloft.net>

Hi,

On Fri, 14 Dec 2007, David Miller wrote:

> -	char space[FLEX_ARRAY]; /* more */
> +	uintmax_t space[FLEX_ARRAY]; /* more */

Usually, a much better idea is to use

	union {
		char cp[FLEX_ARRAY];
		uintmax_t up[FLEX_ARRAY];
	}

because that is exactly the reason union was invented for.