From: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org,
Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] posix-clock: Use an unsigned data type for a variable
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2015 12:48:25 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5676A399.4080007@users.sourceforge.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1512201208250.2067@localhost6.localdomain6>
>> Reuse the type from this poll call instead.
>
> Why use uint when the function return type it unsigned int?
Do you prefer to express the type modifier once more there?
> On the other hand, why is the function return type unsigned int
> when there is a return of a negative constant?
This implementation detail can trigger further software development
considerations, can't it?
This is a general issue for the exception handling in several functions.
Would you like to improve any more source code around it?
Regards,
Markus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-20 12:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-20 8:19 [PATCH] posix-clock: Use an unsigned data type for a variable SF Markus Elfring
2015-12-20 11:09 ` Julia Lawall
2015-12-20 12:48 ` SF Markus Elfring [this message]
2015-12-20 12:51 ` Julia Lawall
2015-12-20 13:08 ` SF Markus Elfring
2015-12-20 20:09 ` Richard Cochran
2015-12-21 9:30 ` SF Markus Elfring
2015-12-21 10:12 ` Richard Cochran
2015-12-22 21:19 ` [PATCH] posix-clock: fix return code on the poll method's error path Richard Cochran
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