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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Tony Breeds <tony@bakeyournoodle.com>,
	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>,
	linux-next@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: linux-next: triage for March 18, 2012
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 17:56:53 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <184427.1332194213@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 19 Mar 2012 19:41:44 -0000." <8010.1332186104@redhat.com>

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On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 19:41:44 -0000, David Howells said:
> Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
>
> > Umm.. it's not clear to *me* that it's intended to be a negative 16 bit?  Or
> > am I just missing context not present in the patch?
> >
> > (I have no idea if the rest of the patch is OK or not, but that comment
> > didn't give me warm fuzzies....)

> The patch permits a 64-bit hosted assembler to represent a large 32-bit
> unsigned integer (such as 0xfffffff1) as a negative integer where the
> instruction being assembled has a signed immediate operand.

Oh, I understood the gist of the patch.  My question was specifically
regarding the comment saying:

"0xffffe000 is clearly intended to be a negative 16-bit value"

I'd guess it was a negative *32* bit value, unless there's context constraining it to 16....

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-19 21:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-18 18:41 linux-next: triage for March 18, 2012 Paul Gortmaker
2012-03-18 23:51 ` Tony Breeds
2012-03-19 14:51   ` Paul Gortmaker
2012-03-27 23:59     ` Tony Breeds
2012-03-28  0:08       ` Paul Gortmaker
2012-03-19 15:03   ` David Howells
2012-03-19 15:21     ` David Howells
2012-03-19 17:23       ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2012-03-19 19:41         ` David Howells
2012-03-19 21:56           ` Valdis.Kletnieks [this message]
2012-03-19 22:20     ` Tony Breeds

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