Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 10:33:16 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Expected compiler error on GENERIC? Message-ID: <20020321103316.A66279@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <15513.61122.201509.896981@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>; from gallatin@cs.duke.edu on Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 09:31:30AM -0500 References: <15513.4041.407099.858575@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20020320.153148.103780390.imp@village.org> <200203202313.g2KND6L12819@harmony.village.org> <20020320154150.A90810@dragon.nuxi.com> <15513.61122.201509.896981@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 09:31:30AM -0500, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> David O'Brien writes:
> > On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 04:13:06PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
> > > The line in question is
> > > if (!badaddr((void *)&t2_csr[1]->tlbbr, sizeof(long))) {
> > > but I don't know what the type of tlbbr is, but it is either volatile
> > > or const for some reason...
> >
> > `tlbbr' is u_long.
> > `t2_csr' is "volatile", and is the source of the warning.
>
> Please: what's the proper way to cast away the volatile & shut the
> f*ing compiler up?
Why is it marked "volatile" in the first place? What will happen if we
make a 'u_long ltmp = t2_csr[1]->tlbbr;' and then pass in the address of
that? Will we potentially be using a stale value that could cause us a
problem?
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