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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Nathan Myers <ncm-nospam@cantrip.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] omnibus header cleanup, certification
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 22:23:24 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C03315C.5060203@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011127061714.A41881@cantrip.org>

Nathan Myers wrote:

>> 
> Please review at least the portion that you are responsible for,
> and verify that the changes are safe and cannot change the semantics 
> of otherwise-correct code that uses the affected macros.  (That will
> be easy, they're all trivial parenthesizations.  It seems worth noting 
> here that in the C grammar, "-1" is not a numeric literal, but a unary 
> expression.)  Then, pass on your evaluation to Linus and Marcelo.  
> 


It's also worth noting that there is nothing that it can get confused 
with and still have a compilable expression.

I don't believe the unary-expression patches are necessary.  They are, 
of course, harmless, except for the fact that my eyes glazed over 
staring at page after page of these, which very few actual potential (!) 
bugs (there were a couple, like the iopage+ ones...)

	-hpa


  reply	other threads:[~2001-11-27  6:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-11-27  6:17 [RFC] [PATCH] omnibus header cleanup, certification Nathan Myers
2001-11-27  6:23 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2001-11-27  7:14   ` Nathan Myers
2001-11-27  7:16     ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-11-27  8:32   ` Urs Thuermann
2001-11-27  6:32 ` Ralf Baechle
2001-11-28 20:02 ` David Mosberger

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