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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: find_next_bit return type
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 23:58:24 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040731235824.249ddb23.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040731232515.1fead83b.akpm@osdl.org>


It's kind of pukey that the size and offset passed in is
unsigned long yet the return type is 'int'.

Frankly, I think the 64-bit systems have the prototype correct
this time and x86 is what ought to be "fixed" :-)

Just think, it only takes a "4GB / 8" sized bitmap to
potentially overflow that int return value :)))

Come on Andrew, you had to cringe at least a smidgen when
making these diffs :)

  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-01  6:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-01  6:24 find_next_bit return type Andrew Morton
2004-08-01  6:25 ` Andrew Morton
2004-08-01  6:58   ` David S. Miller [this message]
2004-08-01  7:02     ` Andrew Morton
2004-08-01  7:10       ` David S. Miller
2004-08-02 10:40         ` Andi Kleen
2004-08-01  6:25 ` Andrew Morton
2004-08-01  6:26 ` Andrew Morton
2004-08-01 11:53 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-01 13:51   ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-01 15:05 ` James Bottomley
2004-08-01 15:07   ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-01 22:09   ` Paul Mackerras

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