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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
	Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Netdev <netdev@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: MSEC_TO_JIFFIES is messed up...
Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 23:55:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jevfj1nwe1.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040512213913.GA16658@fieldses.org> (J. Bruce Fields's message of "Wed, 12 May 2004 17:39:13 -0400")

"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> writes:

> If gcc really optimizes that to just the identity function, then surely
> that's a gcc bug?  Multiplication is left-associative, so i * 1000 /
> 1000 = (i * 1000) / 1000, but (i * 1000) should be zero for any i
> divisible by i^(sizeof(int) - 12).

Signed integer overflow is undefined in C, so the compiler is allowed to
assume it does not happen.

Andreas.

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-05-12 21:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20040512020700.6f6aa61f.akpm@osdl.org>
2004-05-12 18:19 ` MSEC_TO_JIFFIES is messed up Greg KH
2004-05-12 18:42   ` Jeff Garzik
2004-05-12 19:33     ` Ingo Molnar
2004-05-12 19:47       ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-05-12 19:56         ` Davide Libenzi
2004-05-12 20:07           ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-05-12 20:28             ` Ingo Molnar
2004-05-12 20:35               ` Ingo Molnar
2004-05-12 20:50                 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-05-12 21:03                   ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-05-12 21:33                     ` Davide Libenzi
2004-05-12 21:07                   ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-12 21:17                     ` Ingo Molnar
2004-05-12 22:18                       ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-05-13 17:38                         ` Paul Wagland
2004-05-13 19:11                           ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-13 19:19                             ` Jeff Garzik
2004-05-13 22:40                               ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-13 22:40                                 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-13 22:41                                   ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-13 23:02                                     ` Jeff Garzik
2004-05-13 19:50                             ` Paul Wagland
2004-05-12 23:33           ` Peter Williams
2004-05-12 19:49       ` Davide Libenzi
2004-05-12 20:03         ` Ingo Molnar
2004-05-12 20:18           ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-05-12 20:20           ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-12 20:24             ` Jeff Garzik
2004-05-12 20:35               ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-12 20:44                 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-05-12 21:03                 ` Sridhar Samudrala
2004-05-12 20:32             ` Greg KH
2004-05-12 20:38             ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-05-12 20:47               ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-12 20:58                 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-05-12 20:59                 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-05-12 20:55             ` Ingo Molnar
2004-05-12 21:01           ` Davide Libenzi
2004-05-12 21:12             ` Ingo Molnar
2004-05-12 21:40               ` Davide Libenzi
2004-05-12 21:49               ` Zan Lynx
2004-05-12 22:05                 ` Roland Dreier
2004-05-12 21:56               ` Zan Lynx
2004-05-12 21:39             ` J. Bruce Fields
2004-05-12 21:55               ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2004-05-12 22:07                 ` J. Bruce Fields
2004-05-16  3:48                 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-05-16 12:10                   ` Paul Wagland
2004-05-12 20:17       ` Jeff Garzik
2004-05-12 20:54     ` Bill Rugolsky Jr.
2004-05-12 22:44       ` Bill Rugolsky Jr.
2004-05-12 20:40 Jan Olderdissen
2004-05-12 20:46 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-05-12 20:49 ` Andreas Schwab

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