docs/55805: a little correction to the arch-handbook

[Rui Lopes]

The following reply was made to PR docs/55805; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Rui Lopes <rui at ruilopes.com>
To: Igor Ahmetov <ahmetov at rain.ifmo.ru>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: docs/55805: a little correction to the arch-handbook
Date: 25 Aug 2003 01:22:39 +0100

 On S?, 2000-01-01 at 02:24, Igor Ahmetov wrote:
 [...]
 > >Description:
 > Looking into the example in section 13.4 of the arch-handbook (driverbasics/chapter.sgml),
 > we see a declaration: 
 > 	typedef struct s_echo {
 > 		char msg[BUFFERSIZE];
 > 	      	int len;
 > 	} t_echo;
 > 	
 > And later, in function echo_write, the following statement:
 > 	*(echomsg->msg + MIN(uio->uio_iov->iov_len,BUFFERSIZE)) = 0; 
 > 
 > So isn't it more correct to declare member msg of struct s_echo as char msg[BUFFERSIZE + 1]?
 
 Take a look at:
 http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=docs/55445