From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Ulrich Windl <ulrich.windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
joe-lkml@rameria.de, George Anzinger <george@mvista.com>,
Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>,
yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] NTP shift_right cleanup (v. A3)
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 22:18:26 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43314F92.5040801@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43313241.19315.AC261D7@Ulrich.Windl.rkdvmks1.ngate.uni-regensburg.de>
Ulrich Windl wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm against "signed shift right", because the reason for the macro is exaclty that
> CPUs do a "signed" shift right. John does a "signum(arg) * right_shift(abs(arg),
> number_of_positions)". So maybe it's the signed_unsigned_shift_right(), susr() to
> be cryptic ;-)
>
I see, so that would be a divide by 2^shift?
Well, nevermind - I guess the patch is better than what was
there before.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-21 12:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-14 17:48 [RFC][PATCH] NTP shift_right cleanup (v. A1) john stultz
2005-09-14 17:53 ` john stultz
2005-09-14 18:39 ` NTP leap second question George Anzinger
2005-09-14 18:54 ` john stultz
2005-09-15 6:49 ` Ulrich Windl
2005-09-15 17:21 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-09-15 18:35 ` Alan Cox
2005-09-14 18:13 ` [RFC][PATCH] NTP shift_right cleanup (v. A1) Roman Zippel
2005-09-14 18:25 ` john stultz
2005-09-14 19:11 ` Roman Zippel
2005-09-14 18:40 ` [RFC][PATCH] NTP shift_right cleanup (v. A2) john stultz
2005-09-20 1:28 ` [PATCH] " john stultz
2005-09-21 3:24 ` [PATCH] NTP shift_right cleanup (v. A3) john stultz
2005-09-21 5:24 ` Nick Piggin
2005-09-21 8:13 ` Ulrich Windl
2005-09-21 12:18 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
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