From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
To: Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>, Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>,
Peter Chubb <peter@chubb.wattle.id.au>,
torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Large block device patch, part 1 of 9
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 15:50:45 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020903155045.J21268@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E17mJZh-0005jw-00@starship>; from phillips@arcor.de on Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 09:42:56PM +0200
On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 09:42:56PM +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> and I expect it will be this time too. It's just a printk! Who cares if it
> wastes a few bytes. It's even conceivable that if we use this idiom heavily
> enough, some gcc boffin will take the time to optimize away the useless
> conversions.
The issue of casting was never successfully treated by any of the approaches
that were presented, except by Neil's llsect() function. It's shorter than
(long long)sect and has type safety, so let's just use it.
-ben
--
"You will be reincarnated as a toad; and you will be much happier."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-03 19:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-23 5:47 Large block device patch, part 1 of 9 Peter Chubb
2002-08-23 7:07 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-08-27 15:23 ` Pavel Machek
2002-08-27 22:58 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-08-27 23:40 ` Peter Chubb
2002-09-03 10:01 ` Neil Brown
2002-09-03 16:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-09-03 16:21 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-09-03 23:06 ` Neil Brown
2002-12-03 0:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-09-03 19:42 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-03 19:50 ` Benjamin LaHaise [this message]
2002-09-03 20:02 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-03 20:04 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-09-03 20:19 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-03 20:25 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-03 20:05 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-09-03 20:19 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-12-03 0:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
[not found] <15732.34929.657481.777572@notabene.cse.unsw.edu.au.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.44.0209030900410.1997-100000@home.transmeta.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2002-09-03 16:23 ` Andi Kleen
2002-09-03 8:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-09-03 16:43 ` Nikita Danilov
2002-09-03 8:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-12-03 0:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-12-05 10:58 ` Pavel Machek
2002-12-05 21:15 ` H. Peter Anvin
[not found] <825516963@toto.iv>
[not found] ` <15734.37217.686498.162782@wombat.chubb.wattle.id.au>
2002-09-05 0:04 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-09-05 0:38 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-05 1:31 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-09-05 4:05 ` Daniel Phillips
[not found] <fa.l4d1mqv.1ghm1h2@ifi.uio.no>
[not found] ` <fa.j8nq6dv.14lihor@ifi.uio.no>
2002-12-03 8:45 ` Giacomo Catenazzi
2002-12-03 17:40 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-12-03 17:48 ` Giacomo Catenazzi
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