[releng_6 tinderbox] failure on sparc64/sparc64

Stefan Farfeleder stefanf at FreeBSD.org
Sun Feb 5 00:48:21 PST 2006


On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 03:58:56PM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> 
> This driver wants to access these structures as arrays of uint32_t.
> It used to cast directly, but that isn't allowed.  So, I've passed
> the cast through a (void *).  Is that allowed?  Eg:
> 
> 	struct foo foo;
> 	((uint32_t *)(void *)&foo)[3] = 12;
> 
> is that OK?

I'm afraid that only silences the warning without solving the underlying
problem.  I don't think there's a Standard conforming way to treat a
struct foo as an uint32_t array.

Stefan


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