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Date:      Fri, 10 Jun 2005 14:23:21 +0530
From:      Joseph Koshy <joseph.koshy@gmail.com>
To:        =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org, Garance A Drosehn <gad@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: [current tinderbox] failure on ...all...
Message-ID:  <84dead7205061001534b9385b3@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <863brq3bbz.fsf@xps.des.no>
References:  <20050609234619.AD1F67306E@freebsd-current.sentex.ca> <p0621025fbeceac0673f8@128.113.24.47> <84dead720506091950779d1661@mail.gmail.com> <86oeae3d8f.fsf@xps.des.no> <84dead72050610001675a32c19@mail.gmail.com> <863brq3bbz.fsf@xps.des.no>

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> The warning is correct.  Two identical types with different
> not the same type unless one is a direct or indirect typedef=20
> for the other.

You are right.  I was under the impression that the
C type system based on structural equivalence.

> It also seems strange to me that you on the one hand=20
> introduce a new struct to separate MD and MI interfaces,=20
> and on the other hand continue to assume that they are=20
> assignment-compatible. =20

I'd be very surprised if two C structures with identical=20
definitions were not assignment compatible.  The code in=20
question would have changed (to something like what it is now)=20
had the MD struct changed in the future.

--=20
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