On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 12:08:08AM +0800, Axel Lin wrote:
> 於 二,2012-07-31 於 16:41 +0100,Mark Brown 提到:

> > So the above cast probably isn't right...  you shouldn't need a double
> > cast here.

> The issue of original warning is: ( I compile the kernel on x86_64 )
>         warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size

> What this patch does is:
> cast best_val to uintptr_t, which is an unsigned integer large enough to
> hold a void* pointer.

> And then cast it to (void *).

> Thus I did (void *)(uintptr_t)best_val.

Perhaps we need a temporary variable here.  The double cast just looks
too horrible.
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