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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: + expose-range-checking-functions-from-arch-specific.patch added to -mm tree 
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 11:49:19 +0100
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To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> To me, "val_outside" means "true if the value is outside":
> 
> bool val_outside(val, start, len)
> {
> 	return val < start || val > (start+len-1);
> }
> 
> that's what my function does.

Seconded.  Again, I would suggest calling it something like limit_check() or
range_check().

David