From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, randy.dunlap@oracle.com
Subject: RE: + expose-range-checking-functions-from-arch-specific.patchadded to -mm tree
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 10:08:03 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1176422883.14322.166.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <617E1C2C70743745A92448908E030B2A0157430D@scsmsx411.amr.corp.intel.com>
On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 09:05 -0700, Luck, Tony wrote:
> > Actually, I think it's brilliantly documented. Defining base as the
> > first valid value and limit as the first invalid value makes it pretty
> > clear, IMHO.
>
> "first invalid value" is hard to express if the range you
> want to check includes the largest value for the type
> you are using. Either "limit" needs to be the largest
> allowable value, or you should stick to "base,len".
Hi Tony!
Sure. But to be pedantic, that's not a question of documentation: the
documentation made it pretty clear that this expression was not
possible.
Nonetheless, I agree that base+len has merit over start & end.
Cheers,
Rusty.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-13 0:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-06 21:27 + expose-range-checking-functions-from-arch-specific.patch added to -mm tree akpm
2007-04-10 10:17 ` David Howells
2007-04-11 2:19 ` Rusty Russell
2007-04-11 2:48 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-11 10:49 ` David Howells
2007-04-11 18:24 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-11 23:28 ` Rusty Russell
2007-04-12 16:05 ` + expose-range-checking-functions-from-arch-specific.patchadded " Luck, Tony
2007-04-13 0:08 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2007-04-11 23:41 ` + expose-range-checking-functions-from-arch-specific.patch added " Rusty Russell
2007-04-12 10:47 ` David Howells
2007-04-12 14:51 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-04-12 7:42 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-04-11 13:17 ` Rusty Russell
2007-04-11 17:03 ` David Howells
2007-04-11 18:31 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-11 19:17 ` David Howells
2007-04-11 22:52 ` Rusty Russell
2007-04-12 10:49 ` David Howells
2007-04-11 10:47 ` David Howells
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