From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Christian Pellegrin <chripell@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org,
Christian Pellegrin <chripell@fsfe.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] max3100 driver
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 15:34:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080920153412.15e26a93@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080920065652.11d76780@infradead.org>
> I do have a question though: what does a signed bitfield of 1 mean?
> I mean.. the variables are "int", so signed.... where will the compiler
> store the sign bit???
It sign extends so you get 0 or -1. Yes it would be good to use unsigned
to avoid suprises.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-20 14:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-20 7:20 [PATCH] max3100 driver Christian Pellegrin
2008-09-20 8:24 ` Andrew Morton
2008-09-20 10:35 ` chri
2008-09-20 13:56 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-09-20 14:30 ` chri
2008-09-20 14:34 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2008-09-21 16:09 ` Ben Pfaff
2008-10-09 6:23 ` chri
2008-10-10 12:08 ` Christian Pellegrin
2008-09-20 14:11 ` Alan Cox
2008-09-20 14:37 ` chri
2008-10-09 6:30 ` chri
2008-10-09 9:18 ` Alan Cox
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2008-09-20 10:51 Michael Trimarchi
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