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From: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: colpatch@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	mbligh@aracnet.com, akpm@osdl.org, haveblue@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mask ADT: bitmap and bitop tweaks [1/22]
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 15:50:55 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040329155055.4c032a5e.pj@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040329235233.GV791@holomorphy.com>

> No, not those two. xor of 0's is 0 again. and of 0 and anything is 0 again.

I agree with Bill on this.


> It looks like Paul wants those invariants.

No - bitmap wants these invariants, and I wanted bitmap to be
consistent.  It's an exposed API in its own right.  Since it mostly
already had filtering of unused bits on Boolean/scalar ops, and
avoidance of setting unused bits on proper calls, I completed that
model.

For masks, I promise not to set them if you don't screw up, but I don't
add any code to protect against such, and I don't hestitate to presume
the unused bits are always zero whenever it is convenient to do so.

-- 
                          I won't rest till it's the best ...
                          Programmer, Linux Scalability
                          Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> 1.650.933.1373

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-03-30  0:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-29 12:12 [PATCH] mask ADT: bitmap and bitop tweaks [1/22] Paul Jackson
2004-03-29 23:06 ` Matthew Dobson
2004-03-29 23:52   ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-29 23:43     ` Paul Jackson
2004-03-30  1:27       ` Matthew Dobson
2004-03-30  2:06       ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-30  1:46         ` Paul Jackson
2004-03-30  2:55           ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-30  5:09             ` Paul Jackson
2004-03-30  6:36               ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-30  8:00         ` Paul Jackson
2004-03-30  9:22           ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-29 23:50     ` Paul Jackson [this message]
2004-03-30 15:53     ` Chris Friesen
2004-03-30 18:30       ` Paul Jackson

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