From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, randy.dunlap@oracle.com
Subject: Re: + expose-range-checking-functions-from-arch-specific.patch added to -mm tree
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 11:49:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <14926.1176288559@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070410194834.b688ce55.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> To me, "val_outside" means "true if the value is outside":
>
> bool val_outside(val, start, len)
> {
> return val < start || val > (start+len-1);
> }
>
> that's what my function does.
Seconded. Again, I would suggest calling it something like limit_check() or
range_check().
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-11 10:49 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 [this message]
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
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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