[SLOF] [PATCH 1/4] romfs/tools: Remove superfluous union around the rom header struct
Segher Boessenkool
segher at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Jul 19 00:35:15 AEST 2018
On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 02:41:41PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
> - union {
> - unsigned char pcArray[FLASHFS_HEADER_DATA_SIZE];
> - struct stH stHeader;
> - } uHeader;
> + struct stH stHeader;
> +
> + assert(sizeof(stHeader) == FLASHFS_HEADER_DATA_SIZE);
>
> /* initialize Header */
> - memset(uHeader.pcArray, 0x00, FLASHFS_HEADER_DATA_SIZE);
> + memset(&stHeader, 0x00, FLASHFS_HEADER_DATA_SIZE);
It would be nice to have a build-time assert for this.
You can also get rid of this explicit memset by doing this as
assert(sizeof(stHeader) == FLASHFS_HEADER_DATA_SIZE);
struct stH stHeader = { 0 } ;
Segher
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