[PATCH] Remove incorrect & in swap_uint32
Michel Dänzer
michel at daenzer.net
Mon Oct 3 05:58:50 PDT 2011
On Don, 2011-09-29 at 13:10 +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 05:27:45PM -0400, Matt Turner wrote:
> > Caused by commit 893e86a4, and hidden by the (char *) cast.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <mattst88 at gmail.com>
> > ---
> > include/misc.h | 2 +-
> > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/include/misc.h b/include/misc.h
> > index 1fea73e..180b3c1 100644
> > --- a/include/misc.h
> > +++ b/include/misc.h
> > @@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ static inline void __builtin_constant_p(int x)
> > /* byte swap a 32-bit value */
> > static inline void swap_uint32(uint32_t *x)
> > {
> > - char n = ((char *) &x)[0];
> > + char n = ((char *) x)[0];
> > ((char *) x)[0] = ((char *) x)[3];
> > ((char *) x)[3] = n;
> > n = ((char *) x)[1];
> > --
> > 1.7.3.4
> >
>
> I recommend writing a few tests in test/misc.c for this. It won't take long,
> they're quite simple to write and may just spot another bug.
FWIW, this broke the existing xi2 tests, at least on powerpc.
I had to find that out using git bisect... what is this fix waiting for?
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