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Re: Problem in cyg_io_compare?
- From: "Gary D. Thomas" <gary dot thomas at mind dot be>
- To: "David N. Welton" <davidw at dedasys dot com>
- Cc: eCos Discussion <ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: 28 Jul 2003 07:21:24 -0600
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] Problem in cyg_io_compare?
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- References: <871xwapzos.fsf@dedasys.com>
On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 07:07, David N. Welton wrote:
> Does this patch look out of place?
Actually, it would be preferable to discuss such things on
ecos-patches or ecos-devel.
>
> Without it, setting *ptr to n1 is just going to leave *ptr hanging off
> the end of the 'real' n1, according to my reading of the code. This
> fix seems to make things work for me (i.e. the name parameter to my
> device's lookup function actually contains something valid).
>
It's not clear why you think there is an error here. The code
looks right to me and the only time that *ptr could point off
the end of the string would be if n1 pointed to a string which
matched 100% n2.
Can you please explain how your patch changes this behaviour?
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Gary D. Thomas <gary.thomas@mind.be>
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