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Wrong name

Wrong name

Posted Jan 17, 2008 13:06 UTC (Thu) by BenHutchings (subscriber, #37955)
In reply to: Wrong name by ms
Parent article: A kernel security hole

They could be changed to enumerated types, but that wouldn't automatically help much because
conversion between integer and enumerated types is implicit in C. Perhaps sparse would have
caught it though.


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