[devel] [SCM] packages/apt: heads/rework-dynamic-mmap

[Dmitry V. Levin]

On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 04:47:41PM +0300, Ivan Zakharyaschev wrote:
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> commit e785f0e8636e47a672445e70f2923a5eea566b33
> Author: Ivan Zakharyaschev <imz на altlinux.org>
> Date:   Wed Jan 29 04:41:13 2020 +0300
> 
>     use the safer C++-style static_cast instead of a C-style cast (from void*)
>     
>     What is happening here:
>     
>     Map->RawAllocate() returns the index in an array of bytes (i.e., of char;
>     no matter whether they are (un)signed); therefore, we cast the base
>     pointer to the corresponding type, so that the pointer arithmetic
>     gives a pointer to the beginning of the allocated space.
>     
>     We do not want to rely on non-standard void*-arithmetic.

We - это кто, и почему они не хотят полагаться на то, что работает?


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