Re: 2.4.24 patch apply failed on vanilla kernel

[Brian Perkins <bperkins-ooduxAEi7gVg9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>]

Yu, Luming wrote:

> 0001	 ( 1<< 33 , It's overflowed, but it should be 0 )
> 0002	 ( 1<< 34 , It's overflowed, but it should be 0 )

According to all the doc that talk about this, the result is "undefined" 
for bit > word_size.

In fact:

#cat > bar.c

main() {
(1ul <<33);
}
# gcc bar.c

bar.c: In function `main':
bar.c:2: warning: left shift count >= width of type

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Brian Perkins                                bperkins-ooduxAEi7gVg9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org



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