[parisc-linux] 2.4.20-pa27 64bits smp problem!

[Andreas Schwab]

"John David Anglin" <dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca> writes:

|> > I think it was an error to do so.  I do not see how
|> > 
|> > 	(spinlock_t) { 1 }
|> > 
|> > is any more or less constant than
|> > 
|> > 	{ 1 }
|> > 
|> > Removing this extension is a bad idea because it removes the ability to
|> > do typechecking.  For example,
|> > 
|> > 	rwlock_t lock = SPIN_LOCK_INIT;
|> > 
|> > would throw an error with a cast and not without.
|> 
|> GCC allows the above cast.

This is not a cast, it's a compound literal.

Andreas.

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