Re: [PATCH] Fix undefined/miscompiled construct in kernel parameters

[Linus Torvalds]

On Sun, 15 Jun 2003, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> The parse_args call in init/main.c does pointer arithmetic between two 
> different external symbols. This is undefined in C (only pointer arthmetic
> in the same symbol is defined) and gets miscompiled on AMD64 with gcc 3.2,

That's silly. You're making the code less readable, with some silly 
parameters. Why does it get miscompiled on amd64, and let's just fix that 
one.

		Linus