statx struct's stx_size pointer compatibility with uint64_t/size_t
David Howells
dhowells@redhat.com
Tue Dec 17 18:13:00 GMT 2019
Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@codewreck.org> wrote:
> A coworker ran into an incompatible-pointer-type compiler warning when
> trying to pass &statxbuf.stx_size to a function expecting a size_t,
> which boils down to this:
sizeof(size_t) != sizeof(__u64) on some arches, so you can't simply
interchange them. But that's not what your example code is doing.
David
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