On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Manish Katiyar <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 9:40 PM, Mandeep Sandhu > <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 1:03 AM, Vijay Chauhan <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 12:10 AM, Manohar Vanga <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> Also, from the >>>> archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg12320.html >>> >>> Thank you for links which gives good explanation. >>> But I am not able to understand the part accessing a member through >>> NULL pointer like ((size_t) &((TYPE *)0)->MEMBER) >>> How it is handled? > > All you are doing is computing the address and not dereferencing it. > If you dereference it, yes it will panic. eg.. > > *(((size_t) &((TYPE *)0)->MEMBER)) will cause panic
OK I got it. Thank you all for your help. Vijay > > -- > Thanks - > Manish _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
