[Olsr-dev] freebsd fixes for src/bsd/net.c

[Gianni Costanzi]

> > But this is just my opinion... furthermore, I almost always use
> > sizeof(struct my_struct) if src is a pointer to a "struct my_struct"
> > data structure.
>
> And if someone changes the definition of the variable to "struct
> other_struct"?
> Of course one *should* check everything on such changes but we all are
> human too.
> But I believe more in the compiler and other tools to check BTW.

Its more a matter of personal opinions I think.. .there is a long
discussion about this thing on [1], if someone is interested... I
mainly do it for a matter of readability..

[1] http://kerneltrap.org/node/5687

Sorry for my "intrusion" in the discussion :)

>
> Yes, the other solution doesn't catch the case where one changes from
> "struct foo x"
> to "struct foo *x" (except if sizeof(structfoo) == 4) - so that is not
> 100% foolproof
> either but I consider it the smaller problem (if only quantity-wise).
>
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